Pest Control in the North West has seen a relatively early this year which is somewhat surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest operatives were kept occupied with the usual town centre rat calls all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant infestations coming in.

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

Usually ants build 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 annual mating time when they can be most troublesome as they produce winged queens and males which then mate in flight.

The appearance of many thousands of these winged ants inside homes can be traumatic indeed.

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

It was not common for pest controllers in the North West to meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of these insects in unprecedented numbers.

These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and all fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.

Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, frequently arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.

Regularly the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to destroy the old beds and buy new.

This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.

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

They dine solely on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need dirt, their food is you!

Until April 30th 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 simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most properties subject to satisfactory,free

For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for getting rid of 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