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We would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. As you join together with your family and friends, we hope that your holidays are filled with laughter, cheer and gratitude for those around you. And, of course that your table is full of delicious treats for all to share.

July’s Pest of the Month gets their name from the rainbow of colors on their backs, aka the Carpet Beetle! 🌈

Carpet Beetles enjoy a diet based around fibers in our clothing, carpet, and upholstery. They also will eat hair, wool, and silk, and bones! Although it may take a Carpet Beetle up to three years to mature, their life span can only last between 13-44 days in the wild.

Read more about this scavenging pest here: http://ow.ly/RT4Q50K5Mji⁣⁣

Peek at this incredible picture that a Target Specialty Products customer captured of termites emerging from a piece of drywall! 😱⁣⁣

Drug Treatment for Lyme Disease Could Lead to its Eradication Northeastern University researchers have discovered a chemical that is deadly to the bacterium that causes Lyme disease but harmless to animals. This discovery might allow the disease to be eradicated in the wild, they report.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!