Pest Control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a lively and brisk (2010) which is surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept busy with the usual city centre rat infestations throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant infestation coming in.
The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a hectic year for flying ant problems.
Often ants make 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 their mating time when they can be most annoying as they produce winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.
The emergence of several thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.
A relatively new pest was quite numerous in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to deal with these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of these beetles in large 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 some fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their come back in the the North West area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Regularly the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking insects is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become instantly 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 victims. People usually associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need grime, they dine on 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 further three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most houses subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Manchester Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814


