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Article: Urban mosquito control: is it right for you? (Pinto).
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- Pest Control
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Our industry's role in mosquito control was once mostly limited to "fogging" a rich client's yard the day before an outdoor event or in rare instances, providing mosquito suppression at a resort hotel. The rest of the mosquito control market was the territory of state or municipal mosquito control programs.
Conditions are different today. West Nile Virus has made the public far more worried about mosquitoes wherever people work, live or play. So did the introduction of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), that aggressive, day-biting little darling, into densely populated corridors throughout the United States. And the public is often dissatisfied with ...