Pest control in Northwich, Middlewich and Weaverham 2011

Pest and vermin control in the North West has seen a brisk in 2010 which is somewhat unexpected given the very cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest operatives were kept busy with the usual city centre rodent infestations throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant infestation reported.

The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will be a busy year for ant problems.

Frequently ants build their nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest kitchens and food cupboards.

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

The emergence of thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be horrible 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 not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to come across these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in substantial numbers.

These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.

Bed Bugs are continuing their renaissance in the the North West area, often arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.

Often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and purchase.

This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within around fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds will be instantly re-infested.

A lot of people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.

They dine exclusively on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not require squalor, 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.

The 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 in most properties subject to satisfactory,free

For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.

Contact Manchester Pest Control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814