Pest Control in the Liverpool Area has seen a brisk start this year which is unexpected given the very cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest controllers were kept occupied with the usual town centre rat calls throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already provided some ant infestations coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but this year looks like it will be a active year for ant work.
Frequently ants nest under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter food store areas.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most troublesome as they create winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.
The emergence of several thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic in the extreme.
A fairly new pest was quite numerous in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest operatives in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to deal with these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent times and already this March has seen sightings of varied carpet beetle 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 great damage to carpets and any fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Those involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Regularly the initial reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within around five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds will be quickly re-infested.
A lot of people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which cannot be seen by the naked eye. They both a different method of pest control.
They dine only on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require grime, their food is your blood!
Up to the end of April 2010 Trafford & Manchester Pest Control are giving a twenty-five percent discount on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary treatment which for which we give a guarantee for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to satisfactory free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814