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World Mosquito Day and Other Pest “Holidays”
By Erica Westly | August 13, 2009
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Apparently August 20 is World Mosquito Day. These types of events are usually started to pay tribute to something or someone, but it seems World Mosquito Day was set up to remind people that mosquitoes are bad news. I wondered if there were any other pest-themed holidays–a National Termite Day, perhaps?–so, I did some digging. Here’s what I found:
1.) The London Zoo hosts an annual Pestival, a celebration of “insects in art, and the art of being an insect.” This year’s list of activities include a Termite Pavilion and a symposium entitled “How Insect Are We?”
2.) World Rat Day, started in 2002 as a holiday to “honor and promote pet rats as the wonderful companion animals they are.”
3.) And let’s not forget the annual Roadkill Cook-Off held in West Virginia each September.
No termite holidays that I could see, but let me know if you can think of other weird pest-related holidays.
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