Pest and vermin control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a lively and brisk start in 2010 which is somewhat unexpected given the somewhat colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept working with the usual town centre rat infestations all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen ant infestation coming in.

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

Often ants build their 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 are at their most troublesome as they produce winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.

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

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

It was unusual for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to encounter these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent years and already this season 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 can eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.

Those involved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are continuing their come back in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, regularly arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.

Often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking creatures is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.

This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become instantly re-infested.

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

They dine just on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need grime, they dine on you!

Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Liverpool Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent 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 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.

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