Pest Control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a lively and brisk this year which is somewhat unexpected given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rats and mice problems during the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already provided some ant calls reported.

The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a hectic year for ant problems.

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

However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most annoying as they create winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.

The emergence of many thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be traumatic indeed.

A relatively new pest was very prevalant in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was rare for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of these beetles in unprecedented numbers.

These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.

Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.

Often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking creatures is to get rid of the old beds and get.

This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs not only live in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds will be quickly re-infested.

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

They dine only on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need dirt, they eat you!

Up to April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

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

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

Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814