Pest Control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a brisk this year which is somewhat surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest controllers were kept working with the usual town centre rats and mice infestations throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already brought some ant calls coming in.

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

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

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

The release of thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be horrible indeed.

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

It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to deal with these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of these beetles in unprecedented numbers.

They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and all fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.

Bed Bugs are carrying on their return in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning travellers.

Regularly the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrible,blood-sucking creatures is to get rid of the old beds and purchase.

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 around five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds become quickly re-infested.

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

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

Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

This 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 houses subject to free site survey

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

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

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