At the 24th Annual Mascot Games, taking place June 23-24 at Amway Center in Orlando, Fla., Truly Nolen came in second place both days. Major Mouse was part of Team Yellow, led by Captain Fear, Tampa Bay Buccaneers mascot, who tried hard to defend last year’s Day 2 Championship. Other Team Yellow participants included Knightro […]
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Bed bug management tips from PMPs
Pest management professionals (PMPs) who regularly battle bed bugs share strategies that work for them. Identify the pest. “Proper identification...
Combat morale issues by investing in employees
Getting and keeping good staff can be a challenge. Having been in the industry for 30 years, I have seen...
Network like a pro
Editor’s Note: A version of this column appeared on Van Klaveren’s blog this spring. To expand their business reach, pest...
5 tips for treating, preventing a clover mite infestation
Editor’s Note: Information is taken from Truman’s Scientific Guide to Pest Management Operations, available online at the PMP Bookstore. Clover...
Is your food plant program FSMA-compliant?
, based in South Elgin, Ill., and serving Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio and Wisconsin, is generating...
Q&A: PMP chats with a cat flea
An interview with a cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) Cat Flea (CF): [singing] Oh, there’s food around the corner, food around...
PMP recounts house of dead cockroach-filled spider webs
The upper-middle-class house was spotless. Newly inhabited by a professional couple and their young daughter in Long Island, N.Y., it...
3 tips for residential bird management
To say the residential pest management market has its fair share of bird issues is an understatement. I’ll never forget...
Web Exclusive: Improving safety with technology
Editor’s Note: Our “Mobile PMP” section in the June issue (p. 88) featured Michael Rolman’s description of the myriad ways...
Teach customers about mosquitoes
Professional pest management services expand based on the need and desire of the public. In recent years, the need for...
Caption This: Fly graduates from Linnaeus University
You know you have a funny quip for this Leo Michael panel. Why not share it with the industry? Send...
Mosquito population predictions and pro tips
Predicting mosquito abundance: Is it possible? Mosquito prediction would seem to be fairly easy. But as any entomologist and mosquito...
Mosquitoes: Public health concerns lead experts to predictive modeling
Who would have guessed that in 1999, when West Nile Virus (WNV) started its sweep across the United States, a...
Web Exclusive: Which pest is most often misidentified?
The June issue’s Question of the Month (p. 14) features responses from Paul Hardy, Ray Johnson and Mark “Shep” Sheperdigian,...
Mosquitoes as moneymakers for PMPs
The maladies associated with mosquitoes — Zika, West Nile virus and other types of encephalitis, dengue, etc. — have brought...