Pest and vermin control in Liverpool and Wirral has seen a relatively early start (2010) which is unexpected given the somewhat colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Liverpool Pest operatives were kept working with the routine town centre rats and mice problems throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some garden ant infestations reported.
The rainy summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but this year looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for flying ant callouts.
Frequently ants make nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a lot of foraging ants to enter food store areas.
However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most troublesome as they create winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The appearance of thousands of these flying ants inside homes can be horrible indeed.
A fairly new pest was quite numerous in the Merseyside area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest operatives in Merseyside to encounter these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent years and already this year has seen sightings of these beetles in substantial numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and all fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to remove.
We involved in pest control Liverpool have noted that Bed Bugs are continuing their renaissance in the the North West area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Very often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and get.
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 up to fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds will be quickly re-infested.
A lot of people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both require a different type of pest control
They dine just on blood which they drink from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not require dirt, they dine on you!
Up to May 30th 2010 Harrier & Liverpool 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 additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Liverpool Pest Control are offering a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Liverpool and Merseyside area of just forty-four pounds 50p.
Contact Liverpool Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660