Pest Control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a lively and brisk in 2010 which is unexpected given the very cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual town centre rodent problems all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already brought some ant calls reported.

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

Frequently ants make nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.

However it is at mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.

The release of thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be traumatic indeed.

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

It was not common for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these beetles in substantial numbers.

These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.

Those involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the the North West area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.

Often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking pests is to get rid of the old beds and purchase.

This is a costly mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested bedroom 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 will be quickly re-infested.

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

They dine exclusively on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need dirt, their food is you!

Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Liverpool 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 further three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to satisfactory,free

For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the the Liverpool Area area of just thirty two pounds.

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