household pests

A Bed Bug Strategy

Bed Bugs

Bed Bugs (photo bedbugfact.com)

Manitoba’s strategy to get rid of bed bugs makes for some fascinating reading. Global Winnipeg reports that the Canadian province will set up a $770,000 fund to help citizens with bedbug problems. The strategy will provide specialized materials like mattress and box-spring encasements, specialized laundry bags and insect monitors.

Can your dog sniff out bed bugs? Dogs are being trained to sniff out early bed bug infestations.  Carol and Ryan Cobine, owners of The Dog Knows Detection, talk about how their dogs and trainers can easily determine if a bed bug problem is present.  Early bed bug detection (by dog or human) can spare much anguish for the home owner.

Bed bug experts offer tips and products for removing bed bugs.  Bed bugs in New York have become a huge problem, so a forum of bug consultants gathered together to inform residents of methods and products for getting rid of bed bugs.  The product information make this a valuable read.

Stink Bug Problem Growing

Stink Bug

Stink Bug (photo by Marlin E. Rice)

NBC Washington reports on the ever growing
war on stink bugs, noting how they have become year-round pests.  Tim Persinko interviews farmers who have experienced serious crop damage from stink bug invasions.  These farmers expect the brown marmorated stink bugs to destroy even more crops as they become a major cause of crop damage.

Taking a financial affect of crop bugs, Jonathan Berr writes for Daily Finance concurs that the booming stink bug population is bad for farmers, but good for exterminators.   Exterminators are typically small businesses who have seen a windfall because of the pest , a native of Asia.   Stink bugs have become the scourge of the suburbs, and homeowners are reaching out to exterminators to get rid of stink bugs in their homes.

Speaking of home invasions, there is a nice post on philly.com relating stinkbugs entering a home via the air conditioner.  These pesky guys will get in, by hook or crook!

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