In article <1114146948.262122.104630@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
MrPepper11@go.com says...
:) The EPA says that 673 pesticides are registered and still available to
:) treat bedbugs. But Michael Potter, an entomologist at the University of
:) Kentucky, says they're less effective than pesticides of old.
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Their comeback has been the talk of the pest Control Industry for about
10 years now. The comeback is not so much of "less effective"
pesticides, there are plenty of very effective materials we use, but
more of a mind set of service. Years past it was common for pest control
to start spraying the baseboards upon entering the structure and hit
every inch throughout. The seventeen years that I have been in the
field that type of service has been frowned upon, basically treating
areas of entry of the common pests, thus allowing bed bugs, when brought
in a place, to harborage. Another factor thought to be a problem are the
low balling companies willing to cut their rate (service) to get the job
of a known name Hotel or Motel, basically only can afford to let the
tech's service areas of insect activity, rather than complete
preventative services that should be done.
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Lar
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