Pest Control Cheshire – Here at Cheshire Pest Control we offer a full range of residential & commercial pest control.

Pest Control Cheshire

Cheshire Pest Control offer a rapid, discreet value for money service 7 days per week including wasps’ nests destroyed for just £29.50 unless you live in the post areas L. Ch, or CW in which case it is £39.50 and those prices are fixed by Cheshire Pest Control for 2009 unless specialist access equipment such as a scaffold is needed. Later in the season when the new queens are emerging it may be necessary to carry out additional work such as a fogging treatment to the roof space or attic but that is unlikely to be needed before the new queens start to emerge in mid-September. Until then £29.50 is a fixed price. Pest Control Cheshire also specialise in dealing with infestations of ants in the house and in most cases we can remove the infestation and issue a three year guarantee subject to satisfactory site survey. See our articles on ant infestation for further details (on the right hand side bar of this page). We cannot give costs for this over the phone as we need to see the property. All other pests are dealt with 7 days per week and we can usually provide a same day service for Pest Control in Cheshire although in a busy summer this may vary. If you have ants in the house we recommend dealing with them before June as that commences our busy period and until then we have a discount on our normal prices. Pest Control Cheshire Cheshire Pest Control Free Articles

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The Joint Is Jumpin’ – The Story Of The Flea (Ken Chadwick)

The Joint Is Jumpin’ – The Story Of The Flea -Contrary to popular opinion cat & dog fleas do not live on their chosen animal, they merely jump onto their host at feeding time, and dinner for a flea of course is blood.

In nature the fleas live and breed in the nest of animal they feed on, in reality of course in a modern house the ‘nest’ becomes the carpets, rugs and soft furnishings.

Flea (Ctenocephalides felis & canis) infestations are becoming much more prevalent in recent years, centrally heated homes provide an ideal environment for the life cycle of the insect, which can be completed in as little as 16 days.

The increased presence of urban foxes in many towns and cities may be responsible for the increased number of flea infestations as foxes always carry a generous population to share with the neighbourhood cats and dogs.

The well fed flea lays its eggs in the nesting material, carpets in a modern dwelling, which hatch out into larvae which crawl away from light and hence are to be found deep in the pile. In the egg and larval stage they are also pretty resistant to insecticide which is why it is rarely possible to cure a flea infestation with one treatment.

The larvae eat the blood rich droppings of the adult flea before pupating to emerge as a young, hungry flea

Human beings do not taste especially nice to fleas and our blood is not of sufficient quality for them to breed, but in the absence of a cat or a dog we will do!

In the absence of a host the immature flea can go into a dormant state without feeding for up to a year or more and then revive within seconds on feeling the vibration from the footfall of a potential meal. For this reason properties which have been empty for a while often provide a little surprise for the new owners.

Often the family holiday is the time when people notice they have a flea problem, having put the family pet in kennels for a couple of weeks the resident flea population is starving and eager to greet them on their return.

There is however a dangerous side to fleas, we all know they were responsible for transmission of plague and thankfully we don’t have that to contend with anymore but they can set off serious skin irritations in susceptible people including dermatitis.

They also have a more sinister side. The flea is an intermediate host for tapeworm.

When the flea dines on an animal infected with tapeworm it can ingest the worm eggs which pass into its guts. These infected fleas can then be ingested by a cat or dog during self-grooming and the worms infect the new host.

Worse still it is easy for a human baby or toddler to accidentally ingest these fleas when crawling on flea infested carpets.

In order to clear a flea infestation it will be necessary to treat both the animal and the carpets and soft furnishings of the property and outdoor areas where the animal may frequently visit. A professional pest controller will often use both an insecticide and a growth retardant hormone to interfere with the flea life-cycle. The cat or dog will need to be treated at the same time by a veterinary surgeon.

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