Pest and vermin control in the Liverpool Area has seen a lively and brisk start (2010) which is somewhat surprising given the relatively colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Liverpool and Wirral Pest controllers were kept busy with the routine city centre rodent problems all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the somewhat cold early part of the year has already seen some garden ant infestation reported.
The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but this year looks like it will be a hectic year for ant calls.
Frequently ants make their nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to enter food store areas.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most troublesome as they release winged males and winged queens which then mate on the wing.
The release of many thousands of these winged ants inside homes can be horrific in the extreme.
A relatively new pest was very numerous in the Liverpool and Wirral area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest operatives in Liverpool to encounter these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these beetles in unprecedented numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and some fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Those of us involved in pest control Liverpool have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their come back in the the North West area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking creatures is to burn the old beds and get.
This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs not only hide 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 become quickly re-infested.
Most people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both a different form of pest control
They dine exclusively on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require squalor, they dine on you!
Until the end of May 2010 Harrier & Liverpool 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 additional three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most houses subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Liverpool Pest Control are giving a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Merseyside area of just forty-four pounds 50p.
Contact Liverpool Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660