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A Smoking Rat, a Ride on the ‘Cockroach Express’ and other News
There have been three quite uncommon news regarding pests in the first week of December. A pet rat, with a taste for nicotine caused a fire with a cigarette; passengers on the Geetanjali Express from Howrah to Mumbai have to suffer hundreds of cockroaches on the 30 hour train ride and there is a single man for Plague prevention in Mumbai.
Of Bamboo and Rats – Flowers and Famines
Every few decades, there is a synchronic bamboo flower all across India, during which a large ammount of protein rich seeds is dispersed. These seeds serve as a basis for a rapid rodent breeding; once the food source of bamboo seeds is exhausted, millions of hungry bandicoot rats flood the fields and leave nothing for the farmers. A famine is unavoidable.
The Pest Game
A fun way to increase your knowledge about pests is to learn while playing and enjoying. Rentokil India has designed a card game that allows exactly this fun way of learning
The Importance of Public Pest Awareness
While public awareness of pests is quite good in the case of certain species, such as mosquitoes, the adverse health effects caused by other pests are often unknown. Rentokil India conducts Pest awareness programs for school children to inform them about negative health effects, as well as give them guidelines on pest prevention at home.
Rat bites in ‘private’ parts, human eating pests and vice versa