Pest Control in Southport has seen a lively start (2010) which is somewhat unexpected given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept occupied with the usual town centre rats and mice calls all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen some ant calls reported.
The fairly wet 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 active year for ant work.
Usually ants nest under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at their mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.
The release of thousands of these winged ants inside houses can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was quite troublesome in the Sefton area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Formby to deal with these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in substantial numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Formby area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds are instantly re-infested.
Most people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine solely on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need squalor, they eat you!
Up to April 30th 2011 Sefton Pest Control are offering a 25% 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 affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most properties subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2011 Sefton Pest Control are offering a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Ormskirk area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Sefton Pest Control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660