Pest Control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a lively start this year which is very surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2010/11.

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rats and mice calls all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen some ant infestations coming in.

Some people try rat and mouse control by themselves but often it is better to employ a professional.
The damp summers of 2009 and 2010 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will be a active year for ant calls.

Frequently ants build 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 distressing as they create winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.

The release of thousands of these winged ants inside houses can be horrific indeed.

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

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

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

Bed Bugs are continuing their renaissance in the the North West area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.

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

This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become rapidly re-infested.

Many people confuse 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 often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need squalor, they dine on you!

Bed Bugs must not be tackled with DIY Pest Control Products.

A DIY job with a Bed Bug Spray may just make the situation worse

Until the end of June 2011 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% 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 affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to free site survey

For the summer of 2011 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.

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