Wigan Pest Control New Website – The Harrier Pest Prevention group are pleased to announce the launch of their latest regional website targeting the Wigan area.

Wigan Pest Control can be found at http://wiganpestcontrol.com

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0800 019 8382 or 01257 230637.

Harrier Lancashire & Manchester Pest Control New Areas & Websites – Harrier pest control who have traditionally covered Manchester, South Lancashire and North Cheshire have extended their area of operation for 2010 and announce a series of new partner websites.

Harrier pest control have a fixed price for wasps nest destruction during 2010 0f just £32.00 except for customers on postal codes L, CH & CW where unfortunately we have to charge £44.50 to cover increased travel but as we do not charge extra for evening or weekend callouts this still makes us very competitive with other local companies and local authority pest control operatives, some of whom charge over £50.00.

We work seven days per week and will do our best to fit in with your busy schedule and not keep you waiting in all day. If the nest is accessible without going through the house you can even pre-pay by credit or debit card and we will destroy the nest whilst you are out. If it is urgent please let us know you have paid by telephone as we only pick up our email at the end of the working day. Use the buttons below to prepay.

Areas of Operation

Prepay your wasps nest then ring us to let us know.

Wasp Nest £32.00 all areas except Post Codes L, CH & CW – Pay Now

Wasp Nest £44.50 Post Codes L, CH & CW – Pay Now

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Harrier Pest Control on Radio Lancashire

Harrier Pest Control on Radio Lancashire – Our principal Ken Chadwick now appears regularly on Radio Lancashire to talk about pests and pest control throughout the Lancashire & Manchester areas.

If you have a question about pest control or pest matters, be it bed bugs, mice, rats, flease or any other pest problem then tune in next on December 16th at around 1- 3 pm and email in your question.

Ken is an acknowledged pest control expert appearing on TV, The Radio and in Local & National Press.

For a more immediate answer to your problems why not give Harrier Pest Prevention & Control a ring now on 01257 230637

Hear a recording of one of Ken’s earlier broadcasts.

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 Late Season Wasps’ Nests in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire – If you have a wasps’ nest we need to make you aware of a potential problem which occurs with late season nests and which you may experience. 

From about early September onwards the nest starts to produce the new queens which will hibernate for the winter and then start to build next year’s nests, an average nest producing up to about 2000 new queens. 

These queens then leave the nest and look for places to hibernate, typically in roof voids and lofts and it is quite common to find hundreds of them at a time on the floor of the loft or void. 

This process has already started and continues until the first cold spell, usually in November although in 2006 we were still destroying nests into December. 

Our operative has destroyed the nest on your property but as some queens will have already left the nest they will have escaped the treatment and may continue to cause you a problem. 

This may result in a continued stream of these wasps falling into the upper rooms of the property or the rooms adjacent to the nest. This can continue throughout the winter. 

This does not mean that we have failed to destroy the nest but merely that these queens had already left it. This problem will almost certainly occur with any nests left beyond the middle of September. 

Where this occurs the only solution is to carry out a “fogging” or “smoke” treatment of the loft or void using an insecticidal generator which will kill the vast majority of these queens. 

Unfortunately this incurs an additional expense which is as follows 

Destroy nest only – £29.50 

Destroy nest and treat loft or void on same visit   – £49.50 

Return visit to treat loft only where nest has already been destroyed  -     £44.50 

If you are currently experiencing wasps entering your property we would strongly suggest treating the loft on the initial visit to save further expense. 

Late Season Wasps’ Nests in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire

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Stockport Pest Prevention

Stockport based Stockport Pest Prevention announce that there will be no increase in their fixed price to destroy wasps’ nests in 2009, in Trafford.

Stockport Pest Prevention will get rid of wasps’ nests for you if you live in or around Trafford, seven days per week for a fixed price of £32.00.

Wasps’ nests can often be destroyed same day, give us a call to check for availability.

It is not advisable to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as in September many thousands of queens will be produced and this may then require additional cost work such as fogging the roof void or loft, but until then we charge £32.00, no add-ons.

If you have more than one wasps’ nest on the same property in Trafford we do not charge extra for the second wasps’ nest and then only £10 each for the third and subsequent nests.

Many council pest controllers in Trafford are charging £52 for the first wasps’ nest and £30 for each subsequent.

To arrange a visit call us :

Cheshire 01565 849212

Lancashire 01772 837727

Manchester 0161 452 3165

Wigan 01942 504096

Trafford 01204 689361

Blackpool 01253 843019

Blackburn 01254 739138

Warrington  01925 670375

Sale & Altrincham 0161 930 8814

Chorley 01257 230637

Stockport Pest Prevention

Stockport Pest Control & Prevention specialise in Pest Control and Pest Prevention of:
Wasps, Bees, Rats, Mice, Bed Bugs, Ants, Wasps, Squirrels, Beetles, Pigeons, Wasps Nests, Birds, Moles, Flies, Starlings, Wasp’s Nests, Spiders, Magpies, Fleas, Bedbugs, Wasps’ Nests, Insects and Rodents in the following areas:

Appley Bridge, Accrington, Adlington, Alderley Edge, Altrincham, Ashton in Makerfield, Astley, Atherton, Bebington, Burscough, Formby, Blackburn, Blackpool, Trafford, Bootle, Boothstown, Bowden, Bramhall, Bury, Chadderton, Stockport, Croston, Stockport Hulme, Cheshire, Chorley, Culcheth, Darwen, Davyhulme, Didsbury, Euxton, Eccles, Eccleston, Farnworth, Flixton, Formby,  Frodsham, Fylde, Garstang, Gatley, Handforth, Stockport, Glazebury, Golborne, Greater Manchester, Hale, Hale Barnes, Harwood, Haydock, Heywood, Horwich, Helsby, Hazel Grove, Irlam, Kearsley, Knutsford, Lancashire, Leigh, Liverpool, Little Lever, Lymm, Manchester, Macclesfield, Middleton, Northenden, Northwich, Oldham, Partington, Preston, Prestwich, Poynton, Radcliffe, Rochdale, St Helens, Sale, Salford, Skelmersdale, Southport, St Helens, Stockport, Standish, Stretford, Swinton, Thameside, Timperley, Tarporley, Trafford, Tyldesley, Urmston, Walkden,Trafford, Weaverham, Wigan, Wilmslow, Woolston, Worsley, Trafford, Weaverham, Wigan, Winsford, Weaverham, Wilmslow, Woolston, Worsley,Westhoughton, Wirral, Birkenhead,Wallasey, Hoylake, Heswall, Winsford, Middlewich, Runcorn, Widnes, Rainhill, Croft, Halewood, Prescott, Huyton

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0161 930 8814

Trafford based Harrier Pest Prevention announce that there will be no increase in their fixed price to destroy wasps’ nests in 2009, in Trafford.
Harrier Pest Prevention will get rid of wasps’ nests for you if you live in or around Trafford, seven days per week for a fixed price of £29.50.
Wasps’ nests can often be destroyed same day, give us a call to check for availability.
It is not advisable to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as in September many thousands of queens will be produced and this may then require additional cost work such as fogging the roof void or loft, but until then we charge £29.50, no add-ons.
If you have more than one wasps’ nest on the same property in Trafford we do not charge extra for the second wasps’ nest and then only £10 each for the third and subsequent nests.
Many council pest controllers in Trafford are charging £52 for the first wasps’ nest and £30 for each subsequent.
To arrange a visit call us :
Cheshire 01565 849212
Lancashire 01772 837727
Manchester 0161 452 3165
Wigan 01942 504096
Trafford 01204 689361

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Wasps Nests Destroyed £29.50

Wasps Nests Destroyed £29.50 – Harrier Pest Control destroy Wasps Nests’ at a fixed fee of just £29.50 seven days per week in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire. The fee is fixed except for postcode area L, CH & CW where the charge is £39.50, there is no extra charge for evenings, weekends or bank holidays.

Wasps Nests Destroyed £29.50

The 2009 wasp season is almost with us once again, what would summer be without our old friends the wasps to irritate us as we enjoy our summer barbeques?

The biology of the wasp means they are rarely seen much before July as until then only the queen wasp is in the nest.

In spring the over-wintered queens leave their hibernating quarters to find nesting sites which could be in a hole in the ground, a hollow tree or artificial structures such as chimneys eaves, lofts and attics, garden sheds etc.

The new queen starts to construct her nest with a papery material that she makes by chewing small slivers of wood mixed with saliva; this is called Wasp paper.

She will raise the first few workers by her own efforts and those workers will then commence the enlargement of the nest and caring for the immature Wasps to follow.

Nest construction gets into full swing in June and will reach its maximum in size in September, when 5 – 30,000 workers may be present. These workers will forage up to 400 metres from the nest. The size of wasp colonies will vary from year to year, the severity of the previous winter is probably the main factor.

In the early Autumn the immature queens mate and leave the nest to hibernate, the rest of the nest dies out and the nest is never used again.

Many People react differently to being stung by wasps; some are hardly affected, while others suffer considerable pain and swelling and a few become seriously allergic to being stung, which in rare cases results in sudden death due to anaphylactic shock.
Control
It is adviseable to let a professional Pest Controller destroy a Wasps’ nest for the reasons given above. An insecticide will be injected into the entrance to the nest. Returning wasps will carry the insecticide into the middle of the nest and within a few hours all wasps should be dead.

It is inadvisable to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as the immature queens produced by the nest will invariably build nests nearby in the following spring resulting in many more nests the following year. For this reason several nests are often found close together in a neighbourhood a locality.

Wasps Nests Destroyed £29.50

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Pest Control in Manchester and surrounding areas has seen a lively start in 2009.

Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rat problems throughout the winter of course, but the relatively early spring has seen ant infestation call outs a month earlier than usual.

The wet summers of 2007 & 2008 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2009 looks like being a busy year for ant infestation work.

Frequently ants nest under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens & food cupboards.

However it is at mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then mate in flight.

The emergence of several thousand of these ‘flying ants’ inside houses can by traumatic indeed.

A relatively new pest has been especially troublesome this year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to encounter these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.

Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as ‘woolly bears’ can eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest.

Bed bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Manchester area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.

Often the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these blood-sucking insects is to destroy the old beds and buy new.

This is a costly mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just live 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 sockets and the new beds are quickly re-infested.

Many people confuse bed bugs with dust mite which are not visible to the naked eye.

Bed Bugs Bites

They dine exclusively on blood which they take form their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they don’t require dirt, they dine on you!

Until the end of April 2009 Harrier Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

The treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely by a low cost re-treatment every three years can be carried out in most homes subject to free site survey

Contact Harrier Pest Prevention for details on 0800 019 8382

That concludes this article entitled Pest control in Manchester, Lancashire & Cheshire 2009

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How To Kill Wasp Nests (Ken Chadwick)

How To kill Wasp Nests – Although 11 species of true wasp are found in Europe, only two, the Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) and the German Wasp (Vespula germanica) are important as pest species in the U.K. although in recent years the European Wasp (Dolichovespula media)  has made inroads into Britain after arriving on the South Coast in the early 1980s.

All three species over-winter as queens. The Common Wasp usually hibernates in buildings and the German Wasp typically over-wintering under the bark of trees.

In spring the queens leave their hibernating quarters to seek nesting sites which could be in a hole in the ground, a hollow tree or artificial structures such as eaves, lofts and attics, garden sheds etc.

The queen starts to build her nest with a papery material that she makes by chewing small pieces of wood mixed with saliva; this is known as ‘wasp paper’.

She will raise the first few workers by her own efforts and those workers will then commence the enlargement of the nest and caring for the immature wasps to follow.

Nest construction starts in earnest in June and will reach its maximum in size in September when 5 – 30,000 workers may be present. These workers will forage for food up to 400 metres from the nest.

The size of wasp colonies will vary from year to year, the severity of the previous winter is probably the key factor in determining wasp numbers.

In summer as nest building continues apace the wasp is a gardener’s friend as it enjoys a high protein diet of aphids, grubs and larvae but as summer turns to autumn the wasp turns to feeding on fermenting fruits, in short – alcohol!

It is now as the days shorten that the wasp becomes troublesome and pest controllers across the country are deluged with call-outs.

In the late autumn the nest starts to produce the new queens to continue the cycle into the following year and when the time is ripe the young queens leave the nest and mate before hibernating. The rest of the colony dies and the nest is never used again.

Individuals react differently to being stung by wasps; some are hardly affected, others suffer considerable pain and swelling and a few become seriously allergic which in a very cases each year results in sudden death due to anaphylactic shock.

It is always advisable to let a professional deal with a wasps’ nest. An insecticide will be used to cover the entrance to the nest. Returning wasps will carry the insecticide into the heart of the nest and within a few hours all wasps will be dead.

It is inadvisable to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as the resultant queens produced by the nest will invariably nest nearby in the following spring resulting in many more nests the following year. For this reason several nests are often clustered together in a locality.

Ken Chadwick B.A. (Hons) is a Pest Controller and author on pest control issues. For further information please visit http://www.waspgo.co.uk

That concludes this article entitled – How To Kill Wasp Nests

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