This Week In North Carolina Pest Control (Week Of April 25, 2016)
April 29, 2016
This weekly series from Go-Forth Pest Control highlights the top news and notes regarding the pest control industry in North Carolina.
1. Amid Zika concerns, McCrory would restore mosquito-control funding
News & Observer
"Eliminating the state’s mosquito-control programs doesn’t seem like such a good idea, now that there are concerns over the spread of the Zika virus. Eliminating the state’s mosquito-control programs doesn’t seem like such a good idea, now that there are concerns over the spread of the Zika virus."
2. NC State Lab Pursues Bedbug Bait
-NC Health News-
"If you have roaches, you can put down a small plastic trap to control their spread. But there are no such traps for bedbugs … yet. “I formerly was a pest-control tech in North Carolina. We were just seeing these huge increases in infestations, and the inability to manage them was frustrating,” Sierras said during a break at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America, held in Raleigh earlier this month."
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