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News Archive
22
Oct
2017
October 2017: Global Warming Making Cities Rattier?
Climate change in Ontario is getting more real with warmer winters giving rise to rat population overgrowth. Last year, record warm temperatures were reported from coast to coast in Canada. Ontario experienced the warmest winter in December 2016. This led to the burgeoning rat population in Ontario. Some pest control services in Ontario report receiving 26% more calls this year for addressing rat issues as compared to 2016. In areas including Waterloo and Cambridge, there was a 115% increase in the number of inquiries as compared to the 60% increase in 2016. Hamilton received more than four hundred and fifty rat complaints in 2017. Field mice population is also said to be increasing at an alarming rate in Southern and central Ontario.
1
Oct
2017
More Yellow and Red Cards for Eateries in Mississuaga
Peel Health Inspectors issued conditional passes to two restaurants while ordering the closure of a grocery store for failure to adhere to hygiene and pest control standards. While Zam Zam Grocers was slapped with a red card closure order during a routine health inspection, the conditional pass was given to Doaba Sweets and Restaurant and Airport Bukhara. The grocery store was penalized for not adopting the necessary pest control measures besides violating other hygiene standards. In both the restaurants, there were insufficient pest control measures that are deemed as a critical risk for health and safety.
Chartwell Heritage and Glen Walia Sweets are others in a line of eateries to receive yellow cards for inadequate pest control measures.
10
Aug
2017
Insect Menace on the Rise in Mississauga
Not only did Mississauga earn the third spot in the country’s rattiest cities, there has been increasing insect infestation in the recent months. A resident discovered an inchworm at High Park recently. Inchworm infestations have not been common since 2000 in Mississauga. Inchworms, also called cankerworms, are widely found in Lorne Park and White Oats Park as well as the surrounding neighbourhoods. Aerial spraying of pesticides was done in the western part of Toronto to address cankerworm infestation. In Mississauga, aerial spraying of pesticide was carried out ten years back to address gypsy moth infestation. The soil bacterium called Btk is the commonly used agent to kill gypsy moths and cankerworms.
