Pest and vermin control in the Liverpool Area has seen a brisk start this year which is rather surprising given the very colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual town centre rat infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen some ant problems reported.
The damp summers of the last few years were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for ant work.
Often ants build their nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most annoying as they produce winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.
The appearance of many thousands of these flying ants inside homes can be horrific in the extreme.
A somewhat new pest was especially numerous in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest operatives in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to encounter these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent times and already this season has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and all fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Those who ar einvolved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking pests is to get rid of the old beds and get.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within about five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds become rapidly re-infested.
Most people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both require a different method of gatley pest control.
They dine solely on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require dirt, they eat you!
Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent 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 homes subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814