Super Fitness Health BlogPest control in Bolton, Bury and Radcliffe 2011
Pest and vermin control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a brisk this year which is very surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rats and mice infestations all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already brought some ant calls reported.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like being a hectic year for flying ant calls.
Usually ants build nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most troublesome as they produce winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.
The appearance of thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.
A relatively new pest was especially prevalant in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to come across these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of these insects in substantial numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and some fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and get.
This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.
Many people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine solely on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require dirt, they eat you!
Until 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 affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
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