Pest Control in the Liverpool Area has seen a relatively early start this year which is somewhat unexpected given the relatively colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and vermin operatives were kept working with the usual city centre rat infestations throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant infestations coming in.
The fairly wet summers of the last few years were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but this year looks like being a hectic year for ant callouts.
Usually ants build nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to visit food store areas.
However it is at the mating time when they are at their most annoying as they release winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.
The appearance of several thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be traumatic in the extreme.
A relatively new pest was especially prevalant in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest operatives in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to meet these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent times and already this March has seen reports of these beetles in unprecedented quantities.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Those who are involved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their come back in the the North West area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Very often the initial reaction of unlucky people who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking creatures is to burn the infested beds and get.
This is often a costly error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide 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 and telephone sockets and the new beds become instantly re-infested.
A lot of people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye. They both take a different type of pest control.
They dine solely on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty living conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require squalor, their food is you!
Until the end of April 2010 Trafford & Manchester Pest Control are giving 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 3 years, can be performed on most homes subject to satisfactory free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814