Pest Control in the 21st Century Some of the greatest advancements in pest management technology over the past 15 to 20 years have been in the realm of monitoring with advancements in pheromone traps, and especially barcode software programs for…
GENEVA (Reuters) – Yemen can expect substantial swarms of locusts in coming months as its war hinders pest control measures needed to prevent devastating plagues, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Read More
Pest control outfits working in the Berkshires say business is booming lately — with rats. Chris Quinn, operations director of Catseye Pest Control out of Castleton-on-Hudson, N.Y., said he’s responded to 12 homes and eight businesses with rat issues this…
A Fort Worth Wendy’s had to close due to a pest control problem. The store issued a statement ”We have temporarily closed the restaurant at 6440 North Freeway, due to pest control concerns, which may have been caused by recent…
The tamarisk trees that line Lake Havasu on the shores of area beaches have been introduced to their enemy, and one Arizona Farm Bureau official is happy about it. The trees, also referred to as salt cedars, are not native…
Cockroaches are not an unfamiliar sight in Chicago’s aging City Hall, but one of substantial size had the nerve Thursday to scale the wall of the City Council chambers — just as the official ultimately in charge of pest extermination…
Thousands of venomous spiders force family to abandon their $450K suburban St. Louis home WELDON SPRING, Mo. – A family was driven from their suburban St. Louis home by thousands of venomous spiders that fell from the ceiling and oozed…
Crazy story in Chicago A Logan Square pest control company has sued the Sun-Times Media Group and a Chicago Sun-Times reporter, alleging that the company had been defamed in a story published in February. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Cook…
http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-76126754/ Faika Shaaban developed an itchy rash the day she moved into an Annapolis apartment in the fall of 2011. The hundreds of bites, the lesions and the resulting scarring were from bedbugs. She had no idea that she’d rented…
Invasive fire ants have been a thorn in the sides of Southerners for years. But another invasive species, the so-called “crazy” ant that many describe as being worse has arrived and is displacing fire ants in several places. “When you…