Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rats and mice infestations all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already provided some ant infestations reported.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for ant problems.
Regularly ants nest under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then fly off to mate.
The emergence of several thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.
A relatively new pest was especially prevalant in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of these insects in substantial numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and some fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, frequently arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and get.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within around five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds become quickly re-infested.
A lot of people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine only on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need dirt, they eat you!
Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Manchester Pest Control are providing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814