Pest Control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a relatively early in 2010 which is somewhat surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest and vermin operatives were kept busy with the usual city centre rats and mice calls throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant infestation reported.

The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it will be a active year for flying ant problems.

Usually ants nest under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.

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

The appearance of several thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrific indeed.

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

It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to deal with these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.

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

Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire 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 have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and buy new.

This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within around five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds will be instantly re-infested.

Most people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.

They dine solely on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need grime, 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 new 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 on most houses subject to satisfactory,free

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

Contact Manchester Pest Control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814