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School Pest News, Volume 14, Issue 7, July 2015

Why worry about cockroach control? By Faith M. Oi, PhD, Director of Pest Management University, University of Florida There has been much attention given to the bed bugs over the last few years. However, cockroaches remain a pest of major importance because it is a known trigger for asthma. Like the bed bugs, there is not clear experimental data indicating that cockroaches are major disease vectors, but many pathogens have been recovered from them. As always for more information on other pests or on developing an IPM program… Read More →