Pest and vermin control in Liverpool and Wirral has seen a lively start in 2010 which is unexpected given the relatively colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept working with the usual town centre rat calls throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen some ant infestations reported.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but this year looks like it will be a hectic year for ant problems.
Frequently ants make their nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit food store areas.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.
The appearance of many thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.
A fairly new pest was quite numerous in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in the North West to meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent times and already this spring has seen sightings of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as 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 remove.
Those involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, regularly arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking pests is to destroy the old beds and get.
This can be an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay 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 sockets and the new beds are instantly re-infested.
Most people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye. They both a different type of pest control.
They dine solely on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary living conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need grime, they eat you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Cheshire & Manchester Pest Control are giving a 25% discount on their three year guaranteed ant prevention treatment.
The revolutionary new treatment which for which we give a guarantee for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every 3 years, can be performed in most homes subject to satisfactory free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814