What do your company's vehicles say about your business? Are they clean and well kept? Or is there rust starting to show around the edges, acrid smoke spewing from the exhaust and the words "Wash Me" written in the dirt on the back window?

There are many factors to consider when purchasing trucks for pest management operations, including how your desired power spray equipment configurations will mount, transport and/or work in vehicles.

Termite Exclusion: Stop Them Before They Start Apr 1, 2006 By: Dr. Paul Baker

Construction practices used by builders can be critical in keeping termites from invading homes. Here are some critical tips you can offer your clients.

Outdoor lights are an important feature of the urban environment. While they provide safety and security to streets and buildings, however, they may also increase the number of insects and other arthropods in those streets and around those buildings.

Construction practices used by builders can be critical in keeping termites from invading homes. Here are some critical tips you can offer your clients.

As more emphasis is placed on providing true integrated pest management (IPM) solutions, I find in conversations with PMPs at various conferences that we are great bug killers, but for the most part we are lousy fix-it guys.

Bird business, by the very nature of the work, is challenging under ideal circumstances. Now imagine you're part of a team working on a $160 million project designed to bring $122 million annually to a major U.S. city. Without constant communication, planning and precise execution, the whole project can fall apart.

One thing we at Pest Control have learned from talking with you folks out in the field is that, sometimes, you just have to laugh. In that vein, we talked with several bird experts, and collected some of the light-hearted stories they had to share.

BMPs should purchase high-quality binoculars as pest birds often are hundreds, if not thousands, of feet away from the observer.