Pest control in Manchester, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cheshire 2010

Pest and vermin control in Liverpool and Wirral has seen a lively start (2010) which is surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest operatives were kept busy with the usual city centre rodent calls throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already brought some ant infestations reported.

The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for flying ant work.

Frequently ants build nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.

However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.

The release of many thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.

A fairly new pest was especially troublesome in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was unusual for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to encounter these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of these beetles in large numbers.

These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and some fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.

Those involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their come back in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.

Very often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking creatures is to burn the old beds and purchase.

This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within around five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds are instantly re-infested.

Many people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both take a different form of pest control.

They dine solely on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not require squalor, they dine on you!

Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Liverpool Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a low cost 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 providing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.

Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814