Welcome to our latest Insect Music Friday posting. This week we’re moving from Boll/Bo Weevils to Butterflies- specifically, Crazy Town’s hit from 2000, which was memorably used in the opening credits of the Jack Nicholson / Diane Keaton movie “Something’s Gotta Give.” Yes, we recognize that for some reason our Insect Music series keeps bringing us
A Manhattan woman concerned about bed bugs emailed us, “How soon can Roscoe come?!?” Bell Environmental can be there right away to perform your canine inspection. First, who’s Roscoe? Roscoe the Bed Bug Dog is a beagle who works for leading bed bug and pest control company, Bell Environmental Services. Roscoe is a scent hound
David Allen Coe’s famous song “You Never Even Call Me By My Name” explains that the perfect country western song has to talk “about momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison or gettin’ drunk.” So his friend went back and added a verse to his song with the lyrics: “Well, I was drunk the day
Bell Environmental is not alone in highlighting how bed bugs are a real problem! The National Pest Management Association just announced that pest control companies across the country are seeing more bed bug service calls this summer compared to last year, with some reporting increases of up to 25 percent. “For anyone who may think
We don’t get political on this blog, but like the politicians and reporters heading into an election, we rarely take a day off, and we’re not above grabbing a timely headline as the subject for a blog entry - especially before topics get so far away from us that our comment would be irrelevant and make
After last week’s “Boll Weevil” songs, we’re following up with another golden oldie that we love. Here’s Fats Domino singing “Bo Weevil” – which we think is a close enough title to include in this series. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Long before there was buzz about Apple’s new iPhone, iPad mini, or any of the apps or games that you could play on these devices (or apps that you can download), Alfred Hitchcock had his own Angry Birds. If you’ve never seen the movie “The Birds,” there’s a special screening of Hitchcock’s frightfest in theaters
We’re proud to post and publish our 100th entry on Bell-Environmental.com’s blog, where we provide advice on and answers to pest control questions and health issues, share bed bug avoidance tips, comment on pop culture, and provide a little humor and music. As we recently published, the West Nile Virus carried by mosquitoes has been a
Apple’s CEO announced the new iPhone 5 today. During his presentation Tim Cook called the device the company’s thinnest, lightest smartphone ever. The phone will run on higher speed LTE networks. The iPhone 5 is made out of glass and aluminum. It has a larger screen that now shows five rows of icons. It looks really
We enjoy reading the The New York Times including its Metropolitan Diary column. The newspaper just published this conversation as one of its “Tales From The City”: Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, 8:30 a.m. Overheard on the M96: Riding the crosstown bus on a steamy summer morning crowded with freshly showered folk en route to work, I overheard