Pest Control in Crosby has seen a lively start in 2010 which is surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept working with the usual town centre rats and mice calls during the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant infestation reported.
The 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 flying ant calls.
Frequently 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 mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged queens and males which then fly off to mate.
The appearance of many thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was quite prevalant in the Formby area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Ormskirk to meet these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of these insects in substantial numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to remove.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their return in the Sefton area, regularly arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they have been infested with these horrible,blood-sucking creatures is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs not only live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become instantly re-infested.
A lot of people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine just on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require grime, they eat you!
Up to April 30th 2011 Sefton Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary 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 houses subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2011 Sefton Pest Control are giving a fixed price for getting rid of 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