Pest control in Rochdale, Oldham and Bury 2011
Pest Control in the North West has seen a lively and brisk this year which is somewhat surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept busy with the usual city centre rats and mice infestations all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already brought some ant infestation coming in.
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 callouts.
Regularly ants make their nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most annoying as they create winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.
The appearance of thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be horrific indeed.
A fairly new pest was quite numerous in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to come across these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of these insects in unprecedented numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and some fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Very often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking pests is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs not only hide in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds are instantly re-infested.
A lot of people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine only on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need grime, they dine on you!
Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Manchester Pest Control are providing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
