Tempers Fuggit

Pest and vermin control in the North West has seen a brisk start this year which is very surprising given the somewhat colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.

Pest operatives were kept working with the usual city centre rodent calls throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen ant calls coming in.

The fairly wet summers of the last few years were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like being a busy year for flying ant work.

Often ants make their nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a lot of foraging ants to infest kitchens and food cupboards.

However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most troublesome as they release winged males and winged queens which then mate on the wing.

The release of several thousands of these winged ants inside houses can be horrific in the extreme.

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

It was rare for pest controllers in the North West to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent times and already this year has seen sightings of these insects in large numbers.

Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.

Those who work in in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their renaissance in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.

Very often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking insects is to get rid of the old beds and purchase.

This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within around five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.

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

They dine only 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 need squalor, they eat you!

Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

The revolutionary new treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to satisfactory,free

For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the the Liverpool Area 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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