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Pest and vermin control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a brisk in 2010 which is somewhat unexpected given the very cold winter of 2009/10.

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rodent infestations throughout the winter of 2009/10, 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 be a busy year for ant calls.

Usually ants make nests under the floors of houses 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 distressing as they create winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.

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

A somewhat new pest was very troublesome in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester 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 appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of these beetles in substantial numbers.

Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and all fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.

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

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

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

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

They dine exclusively on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need squalor, they dine on you!

Up to April 30th 2010 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 further three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to satisfactory,free

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

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

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