Pest and vermin control in the North West has seen a lively and brisk (2010) which is surprising given the very cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rat problems during the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen ant problems reported.

The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a active year for flying ant calls.

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

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

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

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

It was not common for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to deal with these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of these insects in large numbers.

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

Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the the North West area, frequently arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.

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

This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide 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 sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.

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

They dine only on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not require grime, they dine on you!

Until the end of April 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 further three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most properties subject to free site survey

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

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