Pest Control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a brisk start this year which is surprising given the somewhat cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.

Pest operatives were kept working with the usual city centre rat problems throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already provided some ant problems coming in.

The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but this year looks like being a busy year for ant callouts.

Regularly ants nest under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.

However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged males and winged queens which then mate on the wing.

The emergence of many thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be traumatic indeed.

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

It was not common for pest operatives in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to meet these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent times and already this March has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in large numbers.

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

Those involved in pest control have noted that 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.

Very often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and purchase.

This is a costly mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within about five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds become instantly re-infested.

Many people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both a different method of gatley pest control.

They dine exclusively on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require dirt, their food is you!

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

The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in 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 Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.

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