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    Chicago’s Bug Girl: Janelle Iaccino wants to enlighten the city on the greatness of the creepy, crawly things

    by Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune May 13, 2024 6 minutes
    Janelle Iaccino, aka The Bug Girl, who also does taxidermy, displays a Norway rat at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on March 26, 2024.

    When you think of the acronym STEM, you likely know it stands for science, technology, engineering and math. But does it make you think about bugs, rodentia and taxidermy? Janelle Iaccino thinks it should.

    Iaccino is marketing director of Rose Pest Solutions, a structural pest control company that ensures nature and the environment stay outside of homes and businesses. The family owned, Northfield-based business has been in operation for hundreds of years and has 13 locations in Illinois and Indiana.

    As a spokeswoman for the company in Chicago, Iaccino leads a team of women called the Bug Girls, who use their expertise and knowledge about bugs and rats to inform and educate the next generation of researchers and scientists.

    “I’m usually the Bug Girl, but I also am called the Rat Lady from time to time, which is not as endearing,” said Iaccino, a 19-year employee of the company. “I’ve really made it a mission to bring

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