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

Pest operatives were kept busy with the usual city centre rats and mice problems during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already brought some ant problems reported.

The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will be a hectic year for ant calls.

Regularly ants build nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to infest food store areas.

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

The emergence of many thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic in the extreme.

A relatively new pest was very prevalant in the the North West area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

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

Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.

Those who work in in pest control note that Bed Bugs are carrying on their return in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.

Very often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking insects is to get rid of the old beds and get.

This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.

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

They dine just on blood which they drink from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need grime, their food is you!

Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Liverpool Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a affordable 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 the North West area of just thirty two pounds.

Contact Harrier Pest control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660