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Keep mosquito control equipment in top shape

With well-maintained equipment and mosquito knowledge, your end results always will be positive. Use downtime to maintain equipment.

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Choose to grow your business

Raleigh Jenkins shares how the team at ABC Home & Commercial Services accomplishes organic company growth: marketing, current customers and...

Look out for potential mosquito breeding containers

Many backyard mosquitoes are container-breeding species so it’s important to conduct a thorough inspection to remove or treat potential breeding...

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Paperless office can be achieved with patience, buy-in

Two pest management professionals share how their company operations improved efficiencies and benefited from switching to paperless procedures.

Consider product droplet size for mosquito control

Different devices may result in a different size droplet of the product being delivered, which can have a tremendous effect...

Experts share promotion tips disinfecting services

Pest Management Professional's columnists and editorial advisory board members share tips for promoting disinfecting and sanitizing services.

Utilize IGRs to control mosquitoes

You will never kill 100 percent of the population when targeting highly mobile insects like mosquitoes and insects growth regulators...

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Protect yourself against email scams

Because BEC scams focus on human judgment rather than technological vulnerabilities, they require employee training in addition to technology adjustments.

What to expect from new EPA leader

Michael Regan has been selected as the new leader of the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the new...

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Third-generation PMP marks golden anniversary

Celebrating 50 years in the industry, Larry Treleven now serves as executive VP of his family-owned business, Sprague Pest Solutions...

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3 bad application habits to correct and avoid

Now is a good time to review how to use foggers and sprayers for disinfection, along with common misapplication methods...

In April, Western Pest Services, a Rollins company, donated its Western PurClean service to the First Presbyterian Church of Rutherford, N.J., so the congregation could again meet in person. Disinfection donations like this have become the norm for Western, which has also worked with local firehouses and Boy Scout troops. PHOTO: WESTERN PEST SERVICES

Pro tips for offering disinfecting and sanitizing services

Read some expert tips from pest management professionals offering disinfecting and sanitizing services to customers in light of the pandemic.

Quest Termite & Pest Solutions’ Chris Snyder has taken on new clients, like this gym, thanks to the disinfection service offering. PHOTO: QUEST TERMITE & PEST SOLUTIONS

Answering emergency calls anytime, anywhere

Disinfection service emergency calls became routine for Hellertown, Pa.-based Quest Termite & Pest Management in 2020 during the pandemic.

RK Environmental Services (RKE) Regional Operations Manager Chris Lazo, left, fills out a report as RKE Virucidal Program Service Specialist Johnny Echeverria begins to disinfect commercial mixing equipment at an account. PHOTO: FRED MILLER PHOTOGRAPHY

Cleanup crew: COVID-19 prompts PMPs to offer disinfecting services

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted pest management professionals to offer disinfecting and sanitizing services for customers.

Understand biting black flies

A lesser-known, still-annoying biting pest is the black fly (order Simuliidae). Dr. Janis Reed, BCE, shares some information to consider.