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

Pest controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rats and mice problems during the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already brought 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 is going to be a busy year for ant calls.

Usually ants make their nests under the floors of houses 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 distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.

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

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

It was rare for pest controllers in the North West to meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in substantial numbers.

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

Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.

Regularly 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 get.

This is a costly mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within up to fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.

Most people confuse 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 dine on you!

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

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

For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering 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