About Heather Gooch

The Pest Management Professional (PMP) Hall of Fame Class of 2015 is comprised of Dr. Laurel Hansen, Dr. Phil Koehler, John R. Cook Sr. and Noad Corley. The magazine staff will induct these deserving......

We realize that the majority of our readers don’t have much to do professionally with groundskeeping, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to congratulate Responsible Industry for a Sound......

As many of you know, my late father-in-law, Ray Gooch, was a Terminix technician for many years in Canton, Ohio. I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but his......

Integrated pest management (IPM) strategies in schools has long been an industry focus, but to date, much of the data has been anecdotal, particularly from an economic standpoint. The U.S.......

Are you reviewing rodent training with your techs anytime soon? If so, you might want to take note of expanded label language for your rodent control products. As the National......

The National Pest Management Association’s (NPMA’s) QualityPro Certification Program congratulates the following companies for earning their QualityPro designation: Arrow Exterminators, Broken Arrow, Okla. Boddie Pest Management, Los Angeles Buono Pest......

When the Green Pest Services team decided to give back to their Southern Maryland/Northern Virginia community by setting up a college scholarship fund, they didn’t realize just how many lives......

As first reported last month, Virginia Beach, Va.-based Mosquito Joe celebrated National Mosquito Control Awareness Week (June 21-27) in an unusual way: For the third year, through its “Beat the Bloodsuckers”......

Joe LaFlamme is a first-generation pest management professional, but he’s a second-generation racecar driver. The general manager of Troy, N.Y.-based Northeast Pest Control (NEPC) recalls how one of his favorite......

EDITED AT 3:50 P.M. EASTERN TO REFLECT NPMA’S DR. JIM FREDERICKS’ COMMENTS. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to cancel certain uses of the insecticide propoxur after preliminary......