Pest control in Bolton, Bury and Radcliffe 2011

Pest and vermin control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively start this year which is somewhat unexpected given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest operatives were kept occupied with the usual town centre rodent infestations during the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen ant infestation reported.

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

Regularly ants nest 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 troublesome as they release winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.

The release of many thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be horrible indeed.

A somewhat new pest was especially numerous in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was unusual for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to come across these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these insects in unprecedented numbers.

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

Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, often arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.

Often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to destroy the old beds and buy new.

This is a costly mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within about five metres 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 just on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require grime, they eat you!

Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

This revolutionary new treatment which is guaranteed for three 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 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.

Contact Harrier Pest control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814