Pest and vermin control in Crosby has seen a lively and brisk this year which is very surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rat problems throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen ant infestations reported.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a active year for flying ant callouts.
Regularly ants make nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged males and queens which then mate in flight.
The release of thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be horrible indeed.
A relatively new pest was quite troublesome in the Crosby area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Formby to meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of these insects in unprecedented numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and all fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Bed Bugs are continuing their renaissance in the Ormskirk area, regularly arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Very often the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking insects is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds become quickly re-infested.
Many people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine exclusively on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require grime, their food is 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 in most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2011 Sefton Pest Control are offering a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Crosby area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Sefton Pest Control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660