Showing posts with label pesticides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pesticides. Show all posts
Monday, March 19, 2012

Ah, Spring! Oh-Oh, Pests!

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Yikes! Termites! By Alan Caruba Poets never seem to run out of words to describe spring. Alfred Lord Tennyson said a young man’s though...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Greener Than Thou

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By Alan Caruba The most obnoxious and hypocritical people are those who are always preaching a “greener” way of life, insisting that anyth...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

The Insanity of Protecting Rats

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By Alan Caruba Going back to the 1980s I have worked professionally with elements of the pest control industry providing public relations...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

EPA Protecting You Into An Early Grave

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By Alan Caruba The Environmental Protection Agency is always going on about the ways it “protects” everyone, but its greatest achievement ...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

A Needless, Nationwide Bed Bug Epidemic

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By Alan Caruba There really is no mystery to solving the nationwide bed bug epidemic. In 1946 the solution was DDT. Today the solution cou...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

America Goes Buggy Over Bed Bugs

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By Alan Caruba When The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and all other media in America begin to devote lots of space and time to th...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Why Billions of Bed Bugs are Biting

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By Alan Caruba After decades during which bed bugs were a rare event, they now make headlines infesting places from the Jersey City Goldman ...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

We Must Defeat the EPA Power Grab

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By Alan Caruba “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is carrying out one of the biggest power grabs in American history. The agency has ...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

An Unhappy Pest-Filled 2010

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By Alan Caruba From its inception on December 2, 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency has done everything in its power to deprive Ameri...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Wheat, Yes, Wheat!

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By Alan Caruba Today, we shall talk of wheat. Yes, wheat! Since 98% of Americans have no connection to farming beyond a visit to the superma...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Killing Pesticides, Not Pests

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By Alan Caruba We are going to go from cotton fields to bedrooms in order to connect the dots on the many ways the Environmental Protection ...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Of Mice and Men (and Pest Control)

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By Alan Caruba Among the many books in my office is the “Handbook of Pest Control”, seventh edition, edited by Arnold Mallis. Its contributi...
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Friday, May 8, 2009

The Great Bed Bug Bureaucracy

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By Alan Caruba In mid-April I wrote about the Environmental Protection Agency’s two-day “Bed Bug Summit”, noting that part of the problem fo...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Mosquitoes: Just Waiting to Kill You

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By Alan Caruba I’ll bet you didn’t know that the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) held its 75th annual meeting in New Orleans in...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

EPA Holds a Bed Bug "Summit"

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By Alan Caruba I know the media and, by extension, everyone else is focused on April 15 as the day tax returns must be filed, but there is a...
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Monday, February 9, 2009

The Secret of Success

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By Alan Caruba Unless you are a pest control professional, it is unlikely you ever heard of Norm Ehmann. Those of us who were fortunate to k...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Pesticide-Free Does Not Mean Pest-Free!

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By Alan Caruba In my home State of New Jersey we have a woman going around convincing one city and town after another to pass “pesticide fre...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

The "McCain" Cockroach Wins the Race!

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By Alan Caruba On Thursday, I attended the midday 14th “Cockroach Derby” staged by the New Jersey Pest Management Association during its 61s...
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