Pest control in Bramhall, Handforth and Stockport 2011
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Pest Control in the North West has seen a brisk this year which is very surprising given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept working with the usual city centre rat calls during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen ant infestation reported.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will be a hectic year for flying ant callouts.
Frequently ants build nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most troublesome as they create winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The appearance of several thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be horrible indeed.
A relatively new pest was quite prevalant in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in the North West to meet these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in substantial numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are continuing their come back in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and get.
This is a costly mistake as despite their name bed bugs not only hide in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds become quickly re-infested.
Many people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine exclusively on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need squalor, they dine on you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most homes subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Manchester Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
