Pest Control in Liverpool and Wirral has seen a lively and brisk start in 2010 which is somewhat surprising given the very colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and vermin operatives were kept occupied with the usual city centre rats and mice problems throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already provided some ant infestations reported.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but this year looks like it is going to be a active year for ant callouts.
Regularly ants make nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest food store areas.
However it is at their mating time when they can be most annoying as they release winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.
The release of several thousands of these winged ants inside houses can be traumatic indeed.
A somewhat 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 operatives in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to deal with these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent years and already this season has seen reports of these beetles in unprecedented numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and all fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Those involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the the North West area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Regularly the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the infested beds and buy new.
This can be an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within around fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds become quickly re-infested.
Many people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which cannot be seen by the naked eye. They both need a different form of pest control.
They dine exclusively on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with dirty living conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need squalor, their food is your blood!
Up to April 30th 2010 Trafford & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% discount on their three year guaranteed ant prevention 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 performed in most houses subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814