Technical | Pest Management Professional

Flying insect survey: Opportunities take flight

Check out pest management professionals' responses to this year’s flying insect management survey.

The amount of dust from each properly applied puff amounts to far less than 1 gram.Photo: Mark Sheperdigian, BCE

To record dusts, learn to love your grams

In my August column (“From dust to dust”), we discussed how dust is a must for good cockroach control. Now’s...

12 tips for following the ant trail

Ant management relies heavily on finding the ant trails.

Q&A: Pseudoscorpions, small flies and bees

Email your questions about insect identification and pest management technologies and techniques to Dr. Doug Mampe at dentomol@aol.com. Your questions...

Use available data to forecast pest populations

One of the hallmarks of the structural pest management industry is its willingness to incorporate science-based conclusions into decisions regarding...

Debating digital photography for pest identification

ERIC: We need to start having our employees take more pictures during services. I think it can be a big...

How do termites invade structures?

Like any animal, subterranean termites must have food, water and shelter. They also try to take the easiest way to...

Check rooftop HVAC units for flies, beetles

Are small flying insects coming from seemingly nowhere? Check the roof. Flat roofs are famous for collecting water in low...

5 management techniques for face flies

Author’s Note: Information is taken from Truman’s Scientific Guide to Pest Management Operations, available online at the PMP Bookstore. Like...

Where do bed bugs come from?

Bed bug information resources may differ on the most common ways of getting bed bugs. The most common way to...

Techniques to manage lyctine true powderpost beetles

Author’s Note: Information is taken from Truman’s Scientific Guide to Pest Management Operations, available online at the PMP Bookstore. Lyctine...

2 tips for pollinator protection around perimeters

Perimeter treatments are a staple of summertime pest management services. No matter what part of the country you are working...

Q&A: Spring squirrel trapping, a winter mosquito problem and green silverfish solution

Email your questions about insect identification and pest management technologies and techniques to Dr. Doug Mampe at dentomol@aol.com. Your questions...

Door sweeps: Where insects fail, rodents succeed

Door sweeps are an important tool for exclusion, but there is a difference between insect-proof and rodent-proof. If insects were...

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...