Pest and vermin control in Southport has seen a lively start in 2010 which is somewhat unexpected given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest operatives were kept working with the usual town centre rodent calls throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant infestation reported.

The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like being a busy year for flying ant work.

Often ants nest under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest kitchens and food cupboards.

However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most distressing as they release winged males and winged queens which then mate on the wing.

The appearance of thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be horrific indeed.

A fairly new pest was especially troublesome in the Sefton area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was unusual for pest controllers in Sefton to encounter these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in substantial 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 all fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.

Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Formby area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning travellers.

Regularly the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and buy new.

This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within about five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds are instantly re-infested.

A lot of people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.

They dine solely on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require dirt, their food is you!

Until 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 additional three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most homes subject to free site survey

For the summer of 2011 Sefton Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Crosby area of just thirty two pounds.

Contact Sefton Pest Control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660