Pest and vermin control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a brisk this year which is unexpected given the very cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rats and mice calls during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already brought some ant calls reported.

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 active year for ant callouts.

Often ants build nests under the floors of homes 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 annoying as they release winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.

The appearance of many thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be horrific indeed.

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

It was rare for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to meet these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of these insects in substantial numbers.

Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and some fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to remove.

Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester 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 horrific,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and get.

This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested room 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.

Most people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.

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

Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester 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 affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most properties subject to free site survey

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

Contact Manchester Pest Control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814