Pest control in Bolton, Bury and Radcliffe 2010

Pest and vermin control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a lively start in 2010 which is unexpected given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept working with the usual town centre rat infestations all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already brought some ant calls coming in.

The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a hectic year for ant work.

Frequently ants make their nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.

However it is at mating time when they can be most troublesome as they produce winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.

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

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

It was not common for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to meet these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.

They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and any fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to remove.

Bed Bugs are carrying on their come back in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning travellers.

Often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking insects is to destroy the old beds and buy new.

This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.

Most people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.

They dine exclusively on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need grime, their food is you!

Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

This revolutionary new treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most houses subject to 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 more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814

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