Learn
About Home and Garden Pests On-line
State
Agriculture Department Expands On-line Pest Directory
April 27, 2001
Homeowners
and gardeners will want to bookmark this web page. The Massachusetts
Department of Food and Agriculture has expanded an on-line Pest
Fact Directory created last year featuring everything you need to
know about your least-favorite pest.
The
PestFacts directory offers instant access to information
on carpenter ants, mosquitoes, rodents, termites, wasps, yellow
jackets, cockroaches, ticks, ladybugs and lawn pests. Users can
now choose to view pests by name and picture, or by category.
The
directory provides links to pest related fact sheets published by
universities and government agencies. The fact sheets will help
homeowners identify pests commonly found in Massachusetts and will
explain how to control pests using preventive and non-chemical methods.
The
page also includes links to information on pests and pest-related
diseases that have not been confirmed in the Bay State but have
been found in neighboring states such as the Asian Longhorned Beetle
and West Nile Encephalitis.
Pest
fact sheets are also available by mail or fax by calling Trevor
Battle at the Department of Food and Agriculture’s Pesticide
Bureau at 617-626-1775 or e-mail Trevor.Battle@state.ma.us.
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MEDIA
CONTACT: Diane Baedeker Petit, 617-626-1752, Diane.Baedeker@state.ma.us
PROGRAM
CONTACT: Trevor Battle, 617-626-1775, Trevor.Battle@state.ma.us
