Squirrels Traps What To Do About Squirrels
Squirrels Traps What To Do About Squirrels
Squirrels Traps What To Do About Squirrels – The squirrel population in the Noth West U.K. has rocketed over the last 20 years to the degee that they are now a major pest species.
The grey squirrels which we see in our gardens and parks (Sciurus carolinensis) are not native to Britain, having been introduced here less than 200 years ago.
Like other members of the family Sciuridae, the Grey Squirrel is a hoarder; it hoards food in numerous small caches for later recovery. Some caches are temporary, especially those made near the site of a sudden
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surplus of food.
Other stores are more permanent and are not used until months later. It has been estimated that each squirrel makes several thousand hoards each season. The squirrels have very good spatial memory for the positions of these caches, and use distant and nearby landmarks to find them. Smell is used once the squirrel is within a short distance of the cache.
The nest of the grey squirrel is called a dray (or drey) and it is usual for the female to have two litters per year, with two to four babies each.
They are minor problems, rooting up bulbs and stealing food intended for birds but become major pests when they enter our homes.
It is increasingly common for pest controllers to be called out to homes where a nest has been constructed in a loft or attic space.
Squirrels are rodents and as such have continually growing teeth; the word rodent coming from the Latin ‘rodere’ meaning ‘to gnaw’ and this they do extremely well.
It is rare to enter a loft space where a dray has been made and find that they have not chewed electrical wiring, indeed it is estimated that up to 40% percent of fires without an obviously attributable cause may be started by rodents damaging wiring.
Unfortunately they can also chew through water-pipes, especially with the recent trend towards plastic piping.
As if that isn’t enough, many household insurance policies specifically exclude damage caused by rodents so if a squirrel floods your home by chewing through a pipe in the loft you may find yourself without insurance cover.
Removing squirrels requires professional help, not least in as much as the law regarding squirrels needs to be obeyed. You cannot simply get a packet of rat poison from your local store and deal with them that way as you would be committing a criminal offence.
Furthermore you cannot trap them and move them some distance from your home, quite apart from the fact that removing a squirrel from the area of its food caches would probably condemn it to death by starvation, it is also a criminal offence under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 under which it is illegal to release a grey squirrel in Britain.
That pertains also to rescuing, and releasing injured squirrels.
In the majority cases trapping is the the only option and this must be done in a specified manner with routine, regular inspections of the traps.
Trapped squirrels should be then despatched humanely.
That concludes this article – Squirrels Traps What To Do About Squirrels
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How To Get Rid Of Ants In Your Home 3 Year Guarantee
How To Get Rid Of Ants In Your House Permanently – Spring Special Offer
Get Rid Of Ants In Your House Permanently – spring is here and with it comes the annual scourge of ants which for many people can be nothing short of a nightmare.
In North West England the summers of 2007 & 2008 were very poor and the ants did not thrive, a respite for those who suffer ants in the house on an annual basis but already 2009 looks like it will be the summer of the ant as calls are being received already.
Those that suffer know that flying ants in the house can be a nightmare, almost impossible to cure as the nests are hidden in cavity walls and beneath floors, and the only way to destroy the nest is to kill the queen. This is all but impossible using powders and potions from hardware stores.
There are a variety of new techniques available to pest controllers now which are highly effective in dealing with ant infestations.
These range from using micro-encapsulated insecticides which stick to the worker ants’ bodies and are taken back into the nest and a special technique which effectively puts an impenetrable barrier around the house which the ants cannot cross.
This involved drilling tiny holes into the cavity walls from the outside of the property and blowing in an insecticidal powder under pressure which forms a barrier that the ants cannot cross.
This will effectively prevent the ants inside from foraging outside and dooms the colony.
We are able to give a three year guarantee which is then extendable indefinitely in periods of three years by topping up the powder.
There is no smell or odour and it is perfectly safe for children and pets and can be done whilst the property is occupied.
For a short period we are offering a 30% discount on our normal prices so for a limited period the costs would be as follows
Semi-detached house £175.00
*Detached house £225
*Terraced House £125
Prices apply throughout South Lancashire, Greater Manchester and North Cheshire, further afield work will require a supplement.
All with three year guarantee including unlimited *free call outs
On terraced & semi-detached we can only guarantee the treated walls, so if they are coming in through the untreated party wall there is little we can do unless your neighbours agree to treatment.
To have a chat with us or arrange a free site survey to establish if your premises are suitable call us now on Free phone 0800 019 8382 or 01257 230637
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Eradicate Ants From Your Home – Permanently
Eradicate Ants From Your Home – Permanently
Eradicate Ants From Your Home – Permanently – Only the unfortunate people who have experienced it will know the true of winged ants in their homes.
Suffering an infestation of ordinary wingless ants is bad enough but when they go through their yearly mating cycle the situation can become insufferable.
Ants often build colonies under the floors and in the wall cavities of our homes and these colonies will survive for many years if left untreated becoming progressively more intolerable each year.
Our homes are warm and dry and provide the ideal places for a thriving ant colony; even ‘solid’ concrete floor is permeable to an ant.
Our room heating systems maintains their metabolism even in winter and my earliest ant call-out was on my birthday, in early January!
Ants prefer a sandy soil and there are many locations in Lancashire, Cheshire and Manchester which tend to suffer more ant infestationsthan others, Southport, Blackpool, Bolton, Sale & Altrincham leap to mind as hot ant spots.
Unfortunately it is during their mating cycle that they are most troublesome. Here in Lancashire, Cheshire and Manchester this tends to be fairlyoften around the third or fourth week in July.
Ants mate on the wing and around mid-summer they produce winged immature Queens and winged males which in a more natural environment would fly off and mate on the wing. Many thousands of these winged ants are produced per nest and nests tend to synchronise their release so that they mate with ants produced by other nests.
Invariably this process starts after two or three days of warm, dry weather and will usually go on for about a week although smaller releases will continue throughout most of June, July & August.
Unfortunately when the colony is hidden beneath the floor of the dwelling the results can be catastrophic, literally thousands of winged ants are released into the lower rooms, congregating on windows as they head for the light.
This can be extremely distressing for some people leading to extreme emotional trauma to the degree that people learn to hate the warm months of summer and have actually sold their homes to escape the invasion of ants which they know comes each year.
The wet summers of the last couple of years has meant that ant problems were down on previous years but appear to have a way of catching up and 2009 looks set to be a very busy year.
Most people who have this problem attempt DIY solutions with powders from hardware shops etc but usually these efforts are in vain as they are not getting to the heart of the problem which is the colony itself, hidden away in the cavity wall or sub-floor area.
Fortunately for many people the answer is at hand.
At Harrier Pest Control (subject to site survey) we are able to cure this problem and issue an extendable three year guarantee.
The procedure which is carried out mainly from the exterior of the property, is perfectly safe for animals and children and produces no smell, involves drilling small holes into the cavity walls of the property, not unlike a damp-course injection and injecting an insecticidal powder into the cavity under pressure.
This forms an impenetrable barrier across which the ants cannot go and together with a precautionary internal spray treatment (if appropriate) will gradually bring the infestation under control.
The holes, which are only 8mm in diameter remain open so it is a simply matter of re-injecting the cavities every three years to extend the effectiveness of the guarantee indefinitely.
This procedure is best carried out in the early spring although it can be done at any time of year.
As a limited time special offer before our busy period begins we are offering 25% off the usual cost until April 30 2009. Whilst we usually cover the whole of Lancashire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester, we are prepared to travel further afield but this will increase the cost.
For a discussion or to arrange an appointment contact Harrier Pest Prevention on Free Phone 0800 019 8382 or
http://harrierpestprevention.com
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Problems With Pigeons in Our Lancashire Towns
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Problems With Pigeons in Our Lancashire Towns – Ken Chadwick
Pigeons and doves are members of the Columbidae family and in nature live on cliff faces and rocky places.
The high buildings in we live and work make wonderful artificial ‘rock faces’ and hence our towns and cities are frequently infested with high pigeon populations fouling walkways, motor vehicles and statues.
Frequently this problem is heightened by kind-hearted but misguided individuals feeding the birds.
However it is when these birds gain access into a roof void or upper floor of a building that the real problems begin.
Often pigeons will find a broken window or dislodged slate in the upper and often unused areas of tall buildings.
They rear the young ‘squabs’ usually only one or two per nest on a diet of various seeds and city detritus that they easily find on our busy streets.
There can be many nests in a typical roof void and a build-up of pigeon guano swiftly collects, sometimes over a foot in depth on a long standing infestation.
This pigeon dung itself is teeming with wildlife, yellow mealworm beetle, larder beetle, spider beetle and their associated larvae.
Often the first hint of a problem is when these insects start to migrate into the occupied areas of the building.
On no account should amateur attempts be made to remove this guano, breathing in the dust of pigeon droppings is associated with various respiratory disorders including ornithosis and specialist equipment is needed.
The solution to the problem is of course to prevent them from gaining ingress by sealing all holes and repairing broken windows.
However this does not prevent them from roosting and occasionally even nesting on window ledges and fouling the masonry and walkways below which can become dangerously slippery due to their droppings in wet weather.
The solution to this problem is to apply pigeon spikes onto the ledges.
These are a pigeon deterrent and do not harm the birds in any way but make the ledges uncomfortable for them to land on and they move elsewhere.
Sometimes the only solution is to remove the flock and humanely dispose of them.
This can be achieved by shooting, although this is rarely practical in a busy city environment, or trapping the flock.
Trapping involves pre-baiting of an area until the birds are habituated in feeding there and then setting cage traps to collect the birds.
This is often an emotive procedure and is best done on flat roof-tops etc where the public cannot see the traps.
For help and assistance with your pigeon or general bird problems ring Harrier Pest Prevention on 0800 019 8382.
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Pest Control in Blackpool & Other Seaside Holiday Resorts
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Pest Control in Southport, Blackpool & Other Seaside Holiday Resorts
Seaside pest control brings its own set of special circumstances which sometimes require a different approach to more inland towns.
Firstly the very logistics of working in a busy seaside holiday resort can be problematic, even the basics of parking your van near the customers’ premises can be difficult especially when equipment needs to be carried. This can lead to increased charges which have to be passed onto the customer.
In summer premises are often open seven days a week and even twenty-four hours a day thus leaving little opportunity for the pest controller to go about his work.
This may not cause too much difficulty in routine preventative inspection visits but can cause extreme problems when infestation is detected in that often pesticides require premises to be vacated for a period of time.
In winter the opposite situation may occur where premises are closed for several months leaving a pest infestation to develop undetected.
Seaside holiday resorts usually have a large number of takeaways providing food to eat on the go and often will be littered overnight with uneaten food scraps providing food for rats and seagulls.
Often daily waste collections mean that bagged food waste is put outside overnight thus encouraging rodents.
Seagulls are obviously a nuisance with their noise and fouling but often will take food stuffs up onto roofs and ledges causing a build up of rotten materials which produce flies and maggots.
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of seaside pest control is the resurgence of the bed bug which in recent years has seen numbers rise exponentially.
A high transient population of holiday makers often staying in inexpensive, high turnover accommodation means that the bugs can spread quickly throughout a resort and even expensive upmarket establishments are not exempt.
The very nature of a bed bug infestation means that it is difficult and expensive to cure and news of infestation is often of interest to local press who will often carry a story about a guest being bitten, thus ruining the reputation of the establishment.
Bed bug infestations require that the infested bedroom and those adjacent be treated thus losing revenue for the establishment.
A hotel or guest house could also find themselves liable for the cost of dealing with an infestation at the homes of their guests as the bugs are easily transported in luggage.
Pest Prevention carry out annual preventative inspections and treatment where necessary and can be contacted on 0800 019 8382 or
info@harrierpestprevention.co.uk
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