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

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rodent infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen ant infestation reported.

The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like being a active year for flying ant calls.

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

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

The emergence of many thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.

A relatively new pest was quite 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 deal with these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these insects in unprecedented numbers.

They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.

Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.

Very often the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking pests is to destroy the old beds and get.

This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds will be quickly re-infested.

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

They dine solely on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need grime, 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 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 in most homes subject to free site survey

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

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