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Oriental Fruit Fly Quarantine Lifted

May 31st, 2019
By Karey Windbiel
Subject: End of the Oriental Fruit Fly Quarantine Sacramento and Yolo Counties Effective May 28, 2019 the Department is removing the Oriental Fruit Fly quarantine located in Sacramento and Yolo Counties. Maps of any remaining Oriental Fruit Fly quarantine boundaries can be found at: www.cdfa.ca.
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Ants Attack! Part 2

February 14th, 2019
By Karey Windbiel
As written in my blog post from 2 days ago, I found carpenter ants in my house recently and decided to call a pest control company to help manage them.
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Ants Attack! Part 1

February 12th, 2019
By Karey Windbiel
It's cold out right now in Sacramento so we don't typically see many ants roaming around outdoors much. Indoors where it's warmer, can be a different story however. About a year ago, I started seeing a few random large ants wandering around my house.
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Don't let the bed bugs bite

January 10th, 2019
By Karey Windbiel
As I sit in my hotel tonight and work from atop my bed, I thought it would be useful to share the practice I always use each and every time I stay in a hotel: checking for bed bugs. Bed bugs can occur in any hotel whether it's a 5-star or 1-star hotel.
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