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

Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rat problems throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant infestations coming in.

The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a active year for ant callouts.

Regularly ants build nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest kitchens and food cupboards.

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

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

A fairly new pest was quite prevalant in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to come across these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 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 eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.

Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning travellers.

Very often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and purchase.

This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t just live in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.

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

They dine exclusively on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need grime, they dine on you!

Up to 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 additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to free site survey

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

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