Pest and vermin control in the Liverpool Area has seen a lively and brisk start this year which is somewhat surprising given the somewhat cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.

Pest controllers were kept working with the usual city centre rodent infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already provided some ant problems reported.

The damp summers of the last few years were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will be a hectic year for flying ant calls.

Often ants build their nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to visit food store areas.

However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most troublesome as they release winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.

The appearance of thousands of these flying ants inside homes can be traumatic in the extreme.

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

It was not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to meet these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen sightings of these beetles in unprecedented numbers.

They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to remove.

Those who are involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their renaissance in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning travellers.

Very often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they are infested with these revolting,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and get.

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

Many people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both a different type of pest control

They dine exclusively on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need grime, they dine on you!

Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Liverpool Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

This revolutionary 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 properties subject to free site survey

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

Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660