Article: IS SOMETHING DRIVING YOU BUGGY? THAT'S MUSIC TO PEST-FIGHTER'S EARS

Kevin Meaney bends down beside the back stairs of a large ranch- style house in a leafy Lexington neighborhood and pulls a bait tube out of the ground. Inside it, he discovers a clamorous, burrowing crowd of white, inchworm-like termites.

Bingo. That's pay dirt for Meaney, 33, a Billerica father of three who travels all over northwestern suburbs such as Woburn, Stoneham, Tewksbury, Reading, and Lawrence, battling carpenter ants, bees, hornets, bats, spiders, mice, rats, beetles, and, on this day, termites for NW Pest Control Inc. in Waltham.

"Termites are a scary prospect," says the affable Meaney, wearing a company-issued shirt and baseball cap as he walks around the house with a ...

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