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

Pest and vermin operatives were kept occupied with the usual city centre rats and mice problems during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already brought some ant problems coming in.

The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like being a busy year for flying ant work.

Regularly ants build their nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.

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

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

A fairly new pest was very numerous in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was unusual for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to come across these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these insects in large 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 persistent pest to get rid of.

Bed Bugs are continuing their renaissance in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.

Regularly the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking creatures is to burn the old beds and purchase.

This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs do not 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 and telephone sockets and the new beds will be instantly re-infested.

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

They dine solely on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need grime, they eat you!

Up to April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent 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 houses subject to free site survey

For the summer of 2010 Manchester Pest Control are giving a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.

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