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Pest and vermin control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a lively and brisk this year which is very surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest controllers were kept working with the usual city centre rat infestations throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant calls coming in.

The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will be a active year for ant callouts.

Regularly ants make nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.

However it is at the mating time when they can be most annoying as they release winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.

The appearance of thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be horrific indeed.

A fairly new pest was very prevalant in the the North West area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was rare for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to deal with these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these beetles in substantial numbers.

They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.

Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, frequently arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.

Regularly the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and purchase.

This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within around fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.

Most people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.

They dine just on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need grime, they eat you!

Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

This revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most homes subject to free site survey

For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.

Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814