Pest Management Professional, May 2018
Continued FroM Page 66 It was awful Positively awful His big eyes bounced around behind his glasses Jack stood up Did you accidentally burn the chicken house down or something Jack dont do him like that MJ chided Give him a chance to speak Crawley stopped pacing and turned toward them His face showed both fear and confusion I went out there last night to check on things after the birds were sold He stopped short And Jack was losing patience Well bed bugs was coming out of the poultry house by the millions In waves just waves and waves of them coming out of the ceiling and walls and crawling down the outer walls and then out across the yard That stopped Jack cold MJs eyes were stark ovals by now It was like a horror movie The bugs were moving across the grass like a mighty army outward in all directions from the chicken house Where Where were they headed Jack asked Dont know Crawley shrugged Out across the land toward those little houses on the east side You mean where the migrant workers live Yup And I cant stand to think about it Some of em have little kids Jack looked at MJ Did you know they can do that I mean disperse across land to another location Never heard of it but Im with Crawley Whatll happen if they make it to those houses Its my understanding that two of the families are relocating to new farms out of state next week Uh oh Crawley said Uh oh indeed Jack said Lord help us all MJ said solemnly PMP Dr GoDDarD is an extension medical veterinary entomologist at Mississippi State University He is also a PMP Hall of Famer Class of 2012 He may be reached at jgoddard@ entomology msstate edu Publishers Note Crawley McPherson and all other characters in this series are products of the authors imagination or used fictitiously All names places locations and incidents are entirely fictional and any similarity to places or people living or dead is purely coincidental 68 May 2018 Pest Management Professional mypmp net
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