Austin Frishman

Setting up and doing pest management in a high-rise structure is like eating a sandwich: You have to look at it from the outside, see what's inside and then take it in small bites.

A cockroach is a cockroach is a cockroach? When it pertains to control and elimination, not so.

The need for continual cockroach inspections indicates we can always use some fine-tuning.

The very headline indicates we're not sure what we are talking about. How small is small? How many different small flies are there? With this introduction, you know control will be difficult.

What we often see in the field these days is less-than-perfect baiting techniques. Here are some basics to ensure success.

Now that our industry is doing more exterior perimeter treatments, here are 25 things to be especially careful of

It's critical that I begin by stating that without pesticides, antibiotics and fertilizers, our lives as humans would be specifically altered in a negative way. In some cases, pesticides are an offshoot of product development for the medical profession. It is the pharmaceutical industry that is the...more >>

Fifty years ago, when I first was a pest control operator (PCO), now called pest management professional (PMP), we primarily had the same pests we have today: mice, rats, cockroaches, ants, flies, bed bugs and fleas. My prediction is that they will still be here 50 years from now. How we approach...more >>

Technicians, researchers and everyone else involved in cockroach control needs to care and not be satisfied with anything less than total elimination. Here's why.

Nobody likes retreats - neither our customers, nor our technicians, sales staff, branch managers or company owners. Yet the standard procedure seems to be to rush out and try to satisfy difficult termite accounts by doing spot retreats and hoping for the best.