LCCs continue to erode our QOL...
09-23-2008, 08:00 AM
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LCCs continue to erode our QOL...
Bedbugs make a return via low-cost flights
Terry Macalister
The Guardian, September 22, 2008
Pest control company Rentokil says there has been a 40% rise in the number of call outs over the past 12 months from the transport industry. Britain is now struggling to cope with infestations not seen in half a century.
Experts such as Professor Mike Potteran, an urban entomologist at the University of Kentucky, will be among the figures speaking in Britain but also at a series of events run by the company in France, Italy and Spain in a bid to help staff and clients cope with the bedbug infestation.
The enormous increase in international travel as a result of rising western living standards and low-cost flying is seen as a major factor behind the revival.
The bedbug, Cimex lectularius, hides under carpets or in headboards or skirting boards. The red or brown nocturnal creatures, which are about 5mm long and can lay up to 500 eggs in the space of two months, feed on human blood.
Rentokil has been working on new insecticides, including the Cymexide Nano Fogger, which is being field-tested in France.
Increased foreign travel and a lack of awareness have been blamed for the rise in bedbug infestations being reported by airlines, train and bus companies.
Terry Macalister
The Guardian, September 22, 2008
Pest control company Rentokil says there has been a 40% rise in the number of call outs over the past 12 months from the transport industry. Britain is now struggling to cope with infestations not seen in half a century.
Experts such as Professor Mike Potteran, an urban entomologist at the University of Kentucky, will be among the figures speaking in Britain but also at a series of events run by the company in France, Italy and Spain in a bid to help staff and clients cope with the bedbug infestation.
The enormous increase in international travel as a result of rising western living standards and low-cost flying is seen as a major factor behind the revival.
The bedbug, Cimex lectularius, hides under carpets or in headboards or skirting boards. The red or brown nocturnal creatures, which are about 5mm long and can lay up to 500 eggs in the space of two months, feed on human blood.
Rentokil has been working on new insecticides, including the Cymexide Nano Fogger, which is being field-tested in France.
Increased foreign travel and a lack of awareness have been blamed for the rise in bedbug infestations being reported by airlines, train and bus companies.
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