Pest and vermin control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a relatively early start this year which is surprising given the somewhat colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rats and mice infestations all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen some ant problems coming in.

The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but this year looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for flying ant work.

Regularly ants make nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a lot of foraging ants to enter food store areas.

However it is at their mating time when they are at their most annoying as they create winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.

The appearance of many thousands of these winged ants inside houses can be horrific in the extreme.

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

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

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

Those who work in in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their come back in the the North West area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning travellers.

Regularly the initial reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking insects is to destroy the old beds and purchase.

This is often an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within up to five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.

A lot of people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye. They both take a different method of pest control.

They dine solely on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with unhygienic living conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need grime, their food is you!

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

This brand new treatment which for which we give a guarantee for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a simple 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 offering a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.

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