Pest and vermin control in Liverpool and Wirral has seen a relatively early start this year which is somewhat unexpected given the very colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rodent infestations throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen ant problems coming in.
The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will be a busy year for flying ant callouts.
Regularly ants build nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest food store areas.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most annoying as they release winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.
The emergence of thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was quite troublesome in the the North West area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to come across these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent times and already this year has seen sightings of these beetles in substantial quantities.
They have 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 all fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Those who are involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their come back in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Very often the initial reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to burn the infested beds and purchase.
This is often an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs not only hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within up to fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone 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 both need a different form of pest control.
They dine exclusively on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need dirt, their food is your blood!
Up to April 30th 2010 Stockport & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent discount on their three year guaranteed ant prevention treatment.
The brand new treatment which we guarantee for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every 3 years, can be performed on most homes subject to free site survey
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