>>Though pesticide applicators...promote AHB as a way of getting money from swarm cutouts...like fire ants, and termites that may,
might/could bring a house down...

I am sure exterminating outfits promote their business in less than ethical ways sometimes but there has been a reported significant increase in swarms throughout the south-west.  It's been attributed to the expansion of the AHB strain.

Waldemar

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