Pest Management Professional, September 2018
at the base of mountains in East Tennessee She met him in the driveway and extended a hand Hi Im Marci Thanks for coming out After a rush to reciprocate her handshake Crawley felt for the pesticide cans on his service belt for reassurance Yessum Im here to take care of your pest problem Where they at Well I dont know exactly where they are Its mainly ticks I called about Theyre eating up both me and my dog and Im tired of it Crawley looked around at the expansive yard I dont see a fence Does your dog run free Why yes its not right to restrict animals We dont own them you know Mmm A free ranging dog can bring ticks up to the house you know How many acres you got Five His eyes were wide behind his glasses I cant spray five acres maam I didnt ask you to spray all five acres How much can you spray He turned to go toward the truck First we gotta find out where theyre at Ive got a tick drag cloth I can pull around in the yard and try to figure out the hot spots Then I can spray in those spots only Marci smiled That makes sense That way you dont have to spray unnecessarily Within a few minutes Crawley was pulling the cloth around the property The tick drag consisted of a heavy wooden dowel with a onemeter square piece of white corduroy cloth attached to it The dowel held the cloth outstretched while he pulled it with a short rope Every few steps he would stop flip the cloth over and look for attached ticks He caught nothing in the open yard but by the edge of the trees where the forest intersected with the yard he began noticing numerous tiny brownish specks on the cloth which upon closer inspection were moving Crawley whipped out a hand magnifying lens and examined the tiny bugs seed ticks Then he fished around in his pocket for a vial of alcohol to put them in Back at the house he found Marci sitting on patio furniture in the back yard Beside her on the table was a CONTINUED ON PAGE 102 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 98 STUFF WE HATE MOLD VIRUSES BACTERIA GERMS DUST MITES ODORS ROACHES FLEAS TICKS BEDBUGS STUFF WE LOVE 100 September 2018 Pest Management Professional mypmp net
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