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Pest Control For Larder Beetles.

How to identify larder beetles in your home.

Larder beetles are very similar to ladybugs as they have rigid protective wings which cover their body. These wings are very easy to recognise as they have a wide light yellowish band across them as well as black dots. They have another pair of wings which are kept folded and protected, these are transparent and used for flying. The larder beetle has a useful role as a decomposer outdoors, but can cause serious damage when in homes and should therefore be eliminated as soon as possible.

Larder beetles are stored product pest and they tend to infest high-protein, animal materials such as meats, cheese, feathers or hair. Another favourite is dried pet foods, fish and any products that are of animal origin. They can even feed on dead insects or even accumulated lint and hair in wall cracks.

How they make their way into your home and the damage they can cause.

Larder beetles do not make a nuisance of themselves during the winter months. However, as soon summer begins, they make their way into your home through any small cracks, where they look for suitable food sources on which to lay their eggs. The adult female larder beetle will lay her eggs on any food source that is suitable to the larvae. If she cannot find any suitable food sources, she will lay her eggs in cracks which are in close proximity to your larder or pantry. It is the larvae that infest your food sources; they are hairy and brown in colour, and they moult a number of times before they crawl away from the food source to find somewhere suitable to pupate. They have been known to dig holes in soft wood, and even to penetrate thin sheets of soft metals such as copper, aluminium and lead. It is there that they undergo their metamorphosis into an adult flying beetle.

How to eliminate these pests from your home.

It is very important to remember that in order to completely eliminate these pests from your home, you need to find all their breeding sites, their feeding sites and where they are entering the home and treat all areas.

For this very reason, it is extremely important to call on a professional pest control company such as Protec Pest Control Manchester as soon as you notice a problem. Not only do the technicians have the knowledge and experience to find all the larder beetle breeding sites, they also have a wealth of knowledge about which pesticides to use and how to use them in a way that is not dangerous to the residents of the home or the pets. You can find pesticides at most of your local DIY stores, but unless you have the experience to use them correctly, you are wasting your time trying to eliminate the infestation yourself. Using DIY methods only aggravates the situation making it that much harder to deal with when you call in a professional pest control company such as ProtecPest Control Manchester.

Protec Pest Control Manchester provides the larder beetle pest control service to homeowners residing in Manchester, Warrington, Stockport and Cheshire.The technicians from Protec PestControl Manchester will perform a complete inspection of your home, including your pantry and outside areas and find the areas where the larder beetles are breeding, feeding and entering your home. They will then remove all of the infested materials and apply the correct pesticide, in the correct amount to all the problem areas. They will also be able to give you great advice on how to stop infestations in the future. Make sure you call on Protec Pest Control Manchester as soon as you notice signs of a larder beetle infestation. Contacting them timeously is important if you want to keep the infestation to a minimum and see results quickly for all pest control problems with mice fleas bedbug cockroachs rats squirrels silverfish wasps contact www.protecpestcontrol.co.uk