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Hampshire pest clear provide professional insect control services covering Southampton, Portsmouth, East Hants and surrounding areas. We are very experienced in all kinds of pest control and can respond to your call quickly, if your call is urgent then please call 07971482844 for an immediate response.
We specialise in insect control and also provide Insect proofing services in the Portsmouth, Southampton, Gosport, Fareham, Locksheath, Eastleigh, Totton, Winchester, Bishops Waltham, Botley, Lee on Solent, Havant, Petersfield, Liss, Bordon, Alresford, Alton, Stockbridge, Liphook, Meon and surrounding areas.
Insects In The Home
The control of insects is essential. They spread disease and contaminate and destroy food, they can also cause extensive damage to property. We can provide monitoring programmes designed to seek out any insect problems so that they can be dealt with quickly with appropriate methods.
Bed Bugs
A once common pest of slum dwellings, now reduced by improved standards of hygiene. Still occur with regularity, particularly in multi-occupancy buildings with rapid resident turnover, for example, hostels, holiday camps and blocks of flats.
The adult bug resembles a small brown disc, about 3.5mm long – the size of a match head. It is wingless but the legs are well developed and it can crawl up most vertical surfaces, e.g. bed legs. The elongated eggs are cemented in cracks or crevices close to the hosts (which for bed-bugs are humans).
The young resemble the adult and grow by moulting. Each nymphal stage needs one full meal of blood before it proceeds to the next stage. Fully-grown bed bugs can endure starvation for up to a year in some cases. Infested rooms may have bugs under wallpaper or in crevices in the furniture and joinery. They generally emerge to feed at night and their bite can cause severe local irritation. They also produce a characteristic unpleasant smell.
Today insecticidal surface and space sprays, or heat treatment of premises, clothing and bedding will be necessary; but this is a job for a reputable pest control contractor.
Carpet Moths & Damage
More commonly known as the case bearing clothes moth. They are approximately 5mm in length. There eggs are whitish, and larvae are opaque-white with brown heads.
The females lay between 100-150 white eggs, which will hatch into larvae within 5 days. The period of larval development is 6 weeks, during which time the larvae will feed on fabric such as the carpet. The larvae actually lives in a silk casing which is also made up of the fabric it is feeding off thus sometimes making the casing the colour of carpet.
Cluster flies
These insects, sometimes called attic flies, become pests in homes. They usually appear in late fall or early winter and again on warm, sunny days in early spring. They buzz around the home and gather in large numbers on windows, often in rooms that are not regularly used.
The cluster fly is a little larger than the common housefly and moves sluggishly. It can be recognised by the short, golden coloured hairs on its thorax, this is the part of the body to which the legs and wings are attached. The larvae, or maggots, of cluster flies develop as parasites in the bodies of earthworms. The adult flies emerge in late summer and early autumn and seek protected places to spend the winter. In many cases, this is within the walls, attics and basements of homes. Insect screens on windows offer no protection from the flies because they crawl in the home through small openings in the walls of the building. These same overwintering flies get into rooms during the winter and spring months entering through windows, around the skirting boards and through other small openings in walls and under roof tiles.