The City of Wausau is taking proactive actions after a NewsChannel 7 report on bed bugs in the city's center. They've hired an extermination company to use trained Beagles to try and sniff out the insects in the City-owned Riverview Towers.
Wil-Kil Pest Control will host a Bed Bug Boot Camp in Brookfield September 17 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Milwaukee Brookfield located at 18155 Bluemound Rd. to address the ongoing concerns and prevention methods in the fight against bed bugs. September also marks the return of National Bed Bug Awareness Month, a month dedicated to bed bug education and awareness.
Imagine lifting up your mattress and finding these everywhere. A mini colony of bed bugs, living and breathing right under the place you sleep.
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Except for spiders, no other critter gives people the heebie jeebies more than ticks. Ticks are well known bloodsucking external parasites of humans, pets, livestock and wild animals. They are also vectors of a wide variety of disease-causing organisms to animals and are second only to mosquitoes in terms of public health importance.
As parents or students we have a back to school check list and for one local university, a case of the bed bugs has it including an inspection on the to-do list.
Wil-Kil's Shane McCoy, Technical Training Director, talks about the explosion of ticks in Wisconsin this summer as well as a new tick, the Lone Star Tick, spotted in Wisconsin.
With a slap of a hand against a forearm and some furious itching, mosquito season has officially, and unfortunately, begun in Wisconsin. Large rainfalls and snow melt from earlier in the spring season have allowed many opportunities for mosquitoes to breed and make their presence known with summer still on the cusp of officially starting.
Wil-Kil’s Randy Allen, regional manager, and Craig Rohde, marketing manager, talk to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about techniques for managing gull populations
Wil-Kil Pest Control talks bed bug problems with NBC26.
In a recent report, Milwaukee came out second for the biggest increase in bed bug calls — trailing only Sacramento. Wil-Kil’s Randy Allen joins FOX 6 WakeUp with advice on what to do if you think your place is infested.
