Experts warned that this year has been “particularly bad” in this regard, as the warm, humid weather has become a perfect breeding ground for insects, including wasps, beetles, bed bugs and more. daily Mail.
In several counties in the UK, a strike by garbage collectors has created ideal conditions for flies to thrive – feeding on food waste and being attracted to the smell of rotting food.
Pests are also brought from other countries, for example with plants, to garden centres. Killer Asian horse wasps are becoming increasingly common in southern England.
Meanwhile, the number of wasps in Britain jumped 150% this summer, to 235 billion.
Penelope Panton, 26, had just moved into her first independent apartment when she became the target of a “terrible” insect infestation.
The PR executive has rented a flat in Didsbury, Manchester, after she had to move because of her new job. But after just three weeks, he had to vacate his new home when he discovered an army of bed bugs and fleas. He had to move in with a friend in Leeds for three weeks while the flat was heat treated and disinfected.
An exterminator said one case in London was so bad that the mattress and bed frame had to be thrown out and the entire property was heated for hours to kill each generation of bed bugs.
Experts say there are a number of reasons behind the ‘bed bug explosion’ in the UK, some of which are ‘your fault’.
Summer temperatures are ideal for pest growth and breeding, while rain that follows sunshine leaves standing water that attracts mosquitoes.
But exterminator Paul Bates said British homeowners may unwittingly exacerbate the problem when they try to fix it. People are tempted to buy cheap over-the-counter or Amazon pesticides imported from China.
However, they are ineffective and only kill 80-90 percent of pests – which means that the remaining 10 percent get stronger and become resistant.
