Monday, October 6, 2008 |

Pests In The News



Hidden Pest Risks of Vacant Homes (Carteret County News-Times)
    Oct 6, 2008 - (ARA) - That vacant, foreclosed home next door isn't just bringing down your neighborhood's property values. It may also be a haven for a myriad of pests that can threaten the health and safety of neighbors, children and pets.

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Health board reveals the extent of its pest problems - Press and Journal
    Oct 3, 2008 - Health board reveals the extent of its pest problemsPress and Journal, UK - 4 hours agoSome of the other grisly pest control tasks undertaken across the north included removing wasps’ nests from a mortuary, tackling a millipede infestation in ...

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Going Green - Community Conversation - Bizjournals.com
    Oct 3, 2008 - Bizjournals.comGoing Green - Community ConversationBizjournals.com, NC - 7 hours agoSeth Garber: Vice president-sales/marketing, Nvirotect Services, green pest control services in Lutz. One of the first in his industry in Florida to ...

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New Innovation Set to Revolutionise Spray Technology - Used to ... - PR Web (press release)
    Oct 3, 2008 - New Innovation Set to Revolutionise Spray Technology - Used to ...PR Web (press release), WA - 4 hours agoOther products for pest control of mosquitoes and sanitisation for MRSA are already in Atrium's development pipeline. Atrium's CEO Alan EJ Jones commented ...

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No getting away from pesky bugs (Hamilton Spectator)
    Oct 3, 2008 - If you have noticed yourself swatting away an unusually high number of little flying pests lately, you are not alone. The black swarms of bugs seen hovering over the past few weeks are large congregations of midges, a type of insect common throughout the country.

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Grants for councils to fight weeds - Stock and Land
    Oct 3, 2008 - Grants for councils to fight weedsStock and Land, Australia - 5 hours ago"This new program will deliver immediate grants to councils to ensure they can continue to effectively manage invasive pests," Mr Helper said. ...

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Cheat Sheet: Protecting the home from winter invaders - Philadelphia Inquirer
    Oct 3, 2008 - Cheat Sheet: Protecting the home from winter invadersPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 4 hours agoModus operandi: With cooler temperatures, these pests beat a path to your door, seeking warmth and shelter till spring. They head to the walls of your house ...

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Bee swarms follow high-speed 'streaker' bees to find a new nest (EurekAlert!)
    Oct 3, 2008 - ( The Company of Biologists ) How does a swarm of bees find its way to a new nest site when less then 5 percent of the community knows the way? This is the question that puzzled scientists from Cornell University and the Ohio State University. Filming bee swarms as they relocated to new nest site and analyzing the insects' apparently chaotic course, the team found that "streaker" bees fly ...

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Remembrance Of Tussles Past: Paper Wasps Show Surprisingly Strong Memory For Previous Encounters (Science Daily)
    Oct 3, 2008 - With brains less than a millionth the size of humans', paper wasps hardly seem like mental giants. But new research shows that these insects can remember individuals for at least a week, even after meeting and interacting with many other wasps in the meantime.

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Hidden Pest Risks of Vacant Homes (Today's News-Herald)
    Oct 3, 2008 - (ARA) - That vacant, foreclosed home next door isn't just bringing down your neighborhood's property values. It may also be a haven for a myriad of pests that can threaten the health and safety of neighbors, children and pets.

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Ex-USDA Worker Sentenced for Permitting Pests to Enter Country (KRGV-TV Texas)
Specially Trained Dog Sniffs Out Bedbugs (WLWT-TV Cincinnati)
    Oct 2, 2008 - Itchy pests are invading some Middletown homes, but a new detection method is helping to root out the problem.

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Program in McKinney to focus on emerging pests, fire ant-control - AgNews
    Oct 2, 2008 - Program in McKinney to focus on emerging pests, fire ant-controlAgNews, TX - 19 hours agoMCKINNEY – The Texas AgriLife Extension Service will co-host the program, “Fire Ant Control and Insect Management,” from 8 am to noon on Oct. 10 in McKinney ...

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Grasshoppers flock in from the desert (The Yuma Sun)
    Oct 2, 2008 - Sometimes they cling to walls. Sometimes they're hopping up to doorways or across store parking lots. But it's only that time of the year when grasshoppers come out as they migrate to the Yuma area's agricultural fields, said Willie Negroni, pest control adviser with Soilserv Inc.

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Bug-infested takeaway shut down by court (Oldham Chronicle)
    Oct 2, 2008 - AN Oldham man has been forced to shut down his cockroach-infested takeaway. Juned Choudhry of Widdop Street, Busk, closed the Balti House in Blackrod, near Bolton, after an environmental health officer applied for an emergency court order following the discovery of hundreds of the insects.

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EDMONTON'S NITPICKERS - Canada.com
    Oct 1, 2008 - Canada.comEDMONTON'S NITPICKERSCanada.com, Canada - 23 hours agoShe managed to avoid lice herself, but still sometimes feels phantom itches when she thinks about the tiny insects. To date, Howell's customers have come ...

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Bedbug infestations on the rise, tough to stop (The Columbus Dispatch)
    Oct 1, 2008 - The red splotches and scabs along his arms make Colton Oser look like he's suffered a nasty case of chicken pox, but the itchy 3-year-old in Whitehall actually has been attacked by an infamous nighttime monster.

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Fish eats pests and threatened species (The Monterey County Herald)
    Oct 1, 2008 - SAN JOSE — The scrappy little mosquitofish has been a savior in the fight against the insect-borne West Nile virus. But for California amphibians already struggling to survive, it is something else entirely.

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How the city keeps on top of bed bugs, mice, rats, and squirrels - Edinburgh Evening News
    Oct 1, 2008 - How the city keeps on top of bed bugs, mice, rats, and squirrelsEdinburgh Evening News, UK - 47 minutes agoHis other main opponents are rats, mice, insects, pigeons and seagulls. It is work that takes him to all quarters of the city, to the homes of Lords and ...REDBRIDGE: Pest controllers needed 11 times every day Epping Forest Guardianall 2 news articles

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Bendoc and Bonang win (Bombala Times)
    Sep 30, 2008 - $247,000 will be spent across East Gippsland through the Good Neighbour Program in a major attack against weeds and pest animals.

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