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Termite Bites! - Terrorized by termites

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Video 1 of 1 All Video Terrorized by termites Terrorized by termites It all started when Mary Ann Taylor noticed that her one-year-old grandson's back and leg were blistered with what she thought were ant bites. So she took him to the doctor. "The doctor told me to get some cream to put on him," she says. Taylor says the doctor told her, the bites were too big for ants, and that the boy may have been bitten by termites. The family had just moved into a home in north Jacksonville. On the outside it looks normal, but inside, it was infested with termites. "Its all on this wall and that wall over there. All of the ceiling is rotten. He said its been ate up. If you step through its going to fall straight down," says Taylor. Exterminators found hundreds of swarming termites inside Taylor's home. Robert Teal is a termite expert. He says, more termite colonies are popping up all over Jacksonville. Blame the change from cold to hot weather that's sending these wood hungry insects to attack your home. "As they come out of the winter season, there's higher levels of humidity. It softens the wood and the higher temps lets them know it's time to swarm and create a new colony," says Teal. Click here to read the entire article

Bedbugs bite homeless shelter

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By Catherine Pritchard
Staff writer

The Salvation Army's homeless shelter is battling a tiny pest that is causing big problems: bedbugs.

The Alexander Street shelter has been dealing with the bugs for "a good year now," said Jackie Godbold, director of public relations for the Salvation Army in Fayetteville.

"We keep them at bay and then, because of the nature of our business, it's very difficult to keep it under control," she said. "Some of our people are living under bridges."

The situation is made more difficult because the Salvation Army doesn't want to close the shelter for several days at a time to do a more thorough treatment, said Mary Webster, the shelter's case manager.

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Ugh! Motel room bedbugs crash the party

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By Judy Benson

 

Published 11/24/2009 12:00 AM

Updated 11/24/2009 07:31 AM

 Woman, in town for relative's birthday, spends itchy night at Groton Super 8; health officials, exterminators get called in

Groton - This birthday celebration included some uninvited - and very much unwelcome - guests.

Last weekend, Nicole Main of Middleton, N.H., came to southeastern Connecticut with her sister-in-law and a friend to celebrate her sister-in-law's 21st birthday with a visit to Mohegan Sun. Afterward they drove to the Super 8 Motel in Groton to spend the night.

"I didn't sleep very well," Main said Monday. "I was itchy all night."

In the morning, she and her friends discovered why: bedbugs. They found them crawling across the sheets and in the crevices of the mattresses they had just slept on.

"I collected a few in a cup and brought them to the front desk," Main said.

Then she called the Ledge Light Health District, which sent an inspector to the motel. Main said she learned to identify bedbugs from training she had in a job she formerly held at a hotel. Neither she nor her friends found any visible marks from bedbug bites.

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Agencies remove junk tires to control mosquito population

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By Tanya Drobness/The Star-Ledger

November 15, 2009, 8:00AM

MORRIS COUNTY -- Ron Foster stands ankle deep in a mucky, foul-smelling swamp in Denville festooned with dry leaves. He shakes his head as he pulls a bald tire out of the mud - a tire, he said, somebody dumped without much regard to nature.

"People know what they're doing, but they don't care," the Morris County Mosquito Commission senior inspector said one morning last week as he leaned on a giant rake.


Matt Rainey/The Star-Ledger Crews from the Morris
County Mosquito Commission and the Municipal Utilities
Authority are finding and removing discarded tires
from streams, roadsides and wooded areas throughout
the county as part of the commission's year-round
mosquito control effort.

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