Ant-Ser.com the Pest control expert says unseasonable weather is drawing infestations of millipedes into homes
Friday, June 18, 2010
Please visit our online store to buy products to help with you infestations.
By TONY NAUROTH
The Express-Times
Ron Mahorsky knows what it’s like to deal with customers who have come face to face with the “eewwww” factor crawling all over their floors and walls.
“I just had a customer who was up in arms,” said the employee from Nazareth-based Rid-Et Pest Control, recalling an Upper Nazareth Township client.
Mahorsky described the recent atypical weather as “the perfect storm” for infestations of Narceus americanus, just one species of a large group of bugs more commonly known as millipedes.
Mahorsky and others in his profession predict an increasing number of infestations of the North American millipede and others of its thousand-legged ilk, particularly in homes surrounded by woods.
“Too much moisture or the hot sun will push them to higher ground,” said Mahorsky, who said he’s been in the pest control business for 40 years. “They’re pushed into the homes.”
(more…)
