Pest control in Sale, Timperley and Altrincham 2010

Pest Control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a relatively early in 2010 which is somewhat unexpected given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.

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

The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will be a hectic year for flying ant callouts.

Regularly ants build 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 the annual mating time when they can be most troublesome as they produce winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.

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

A relatively new pest was very numerous in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to come across these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of these beetles in substantial numbers.

They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and all fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.

Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.

Often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and get.

This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within about five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds become instantly re-infested.

Many people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.

They dine just on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not require grime, their food is 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 low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most houses subject to satisfactory,free

For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.

Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814