Pest and vermin control in Liverpool and Wirral has seen a brisk start (2010) which is rather surprising given the somewhat cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.

Pest operatives were kept working with the usual city centre rodent calls throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already brought some ant infestation coming in.

The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but this year looks like it is going to be a active year for ant problems.

Frequently ants make their 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 the annual mating time when they can be most annoying as they release winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.

The emergence of many thousands of these winged ants inside houses can be horrible in the extreme.

A fairly new pest was especially troublesome in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

It was not common for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to meet these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent times and already this spring has seen reports of these insects in large numbers.

Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and some fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to remove.

Those involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are carrying on their come back in the the North West area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.

Often the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking creatures is to get rid of the old beds and purchase.

This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within about five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical 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 both need a different method of gatley pest control.

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

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

The revolutionary 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 properties subject to satisfactory,free

For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the the Liverpool Area area of just thirty two pounds.

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