Manchester Pest control – A View on Pest Control in 2011
Posted in Uncategorized on 05/30/2011 02:07 pm by FriendsOfCManchester Pest Control have seen a relatively early this year which is very surprising given the very cold winter of last year.
Manchester Pest Control Pest operatives were kept working with the usual town centre rats and mice infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen ant problems coming in.
The damp summers of 2009 and 2010 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a hectic year for flying ant work.
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 annoying as they release winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.
The emergence of thousands of these winged ants inside homes can be traumatic indeed.
A fairly new pest was especially prevalant in the the North West area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to deal with these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these insects in large numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Manchester Pest Control state that bed bugs are continuing their return in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking insects is to destroy the old beds and purchase.
This is a costly mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay 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 and telephone sockets and the new beds become quickly re-infested.
Many people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine exclusively on blood which they drink from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need dirt, they dine on you!
Until the end of May 2011 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant solution.
This revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for 3 years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2011 Manchester Pest Control are giving a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.
Telephone Manchester Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 452 3165