Precise surveys of badger numbers in the pilot zones in Gloucestershire and Somerset revealed about twice as many badgers as expected.

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Firlik expects results early next year from those pilot programs, as well as return on investment numbers for its customers.

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No nationwide survey of the insects' numbers has been published since former RAF pilot and school teacher Bob George, who began mapping them in the 1950s, published his Atlas of the Fleas of Britain and Ireland in 2008.

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