Hidden profits: there's money to be made from bed bugs--if you know where to look.(Cover Story) From: Pest Control | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Gooch, Heather | COPYRIGHT 2005 Advanstar Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"The perfect storm" is what Dr. Michael Potter calls the recent influx of bed bug infestations, and with good reason. The University of Kentucky entomologist saw the extent of the problem firsthand when trouble-shooting accounts with Donnie Blake, president of OPC Pest Control in Louisville, Ky. Since then, Potter has been banging the drum at industry meetings around the country about the need for more training--and more research--regarding the blood-sucking parasite, Cimex lectula...

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