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

Pest and vermin operatives were kept occupied with the usual city centre rodent infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen some ant infestation reported.

The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a active year for ant calls.

Usually ants build their nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.

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

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

A fairly new pest was especially troublesome in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was rare for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of these insects in substantial numbers.

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

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

Regularly the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to get rid of the old beds and get.

This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide 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 and telephone sockets and the new beds become instantly re-infested.

Many people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.

They dine just on blood which they drink from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require dirt, they eat you!

Up to 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 in most houses subject to satisfactory,free

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

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