Bedbug problem spurs new businesses


As more and more bedbugs arrive in Lane County, new businesses are springing up to deal with the pests.

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As more and more bedbugs arrive in Lane County, new businesses are springing up to deal with the pests.

“It’s a big business,” said Dave Ottovich, owner of “Ask the Bug Man” Pest Management Services in Eugene.

Nationally, bedbug-associated revenues at treatment companies are up 24 percent, at $319 million in 2010 from $258 million in 2009, according to the National Pest Management Association.

A half dozen new companies with “bedbug” in their names were launched in Oregon since August, including Progressive Bedbug Solutions and Bedbug Guys. And Lane County’s pest control industry grew last year, with two new firms joining the existing dozen.

Read more at The Register-Guard.

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