Pest Control in the North West has seen a lively and brisk start (2010) which is somewhat unexpected given the very cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept working with the usual city centre rat calls throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen some ant infestation coming in.

The fairly wet summers of the last few years were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for flying ant calls.

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

However it is at mating time when they are at their most annoying as they produce winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.

The appearance of thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be traumatic indeed.

A somewhat new pest was very prevalant in the the North West area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to come across these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented quantities.

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

Those who are involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their come back in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning travellers.

Regularly the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and buy new.

This can be a costly error as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within around five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds will be quickly re-infested.

A lot of people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which cannot be seen by the naked eye. They both a different form of pest control.

They dine only on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with unhygienic living conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require dirt, they eat you!

Up to April 30th 2010 Stockport & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their three year guaranteed ant treatment.

The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most properties subject to satisfactory free site survey

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

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