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University Offers Gopher Control Advice

The University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program has published a five-page “pest note” that discusses gopher biology and behavior and...

Mice Pose Problem at S.C. Nursing Home

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Officials with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health say mice have invaded the Tucker Care Center, a state nursing...

Indiana Home Found Infested With Brown Recluse Spiders

The Evansville Courier and Press of Evansville, Ind., recently did an article on Jamel Sandidge of Kansas University and an...

Africanized Bees Attack San Antonio PMP

SAN ANTONIO — A technician with Century Pest Control in San Antonio was swarmed by bees as he tried to...

SafeGuard Offers Pest-Specific Paste Baits For Live Trapping

NEW HOLLAND, Pa. — Safeguard Products has announced the availability of a line of professional baits that can be used in conjunction...

Proving Grounds

Insect Control Research celebrates 60 years of breeding bugs to test and register insecticides, repellents “I’ll never forget that day,”...

Entrepreneur’s Journal: How One Arizona PMP Taught Black Widows a Major Lesson

By: Michael Newhouse Queen Creek, Ariz., experienced an exceptional amount of rainfall in 2005. A typical rainy season in Arizona usually...

Crow Problems Plague Cortland, N.Y.

CORTLAND, N.Y. — The city of Cortland, N.Y. is considering hiring a pest management company to deal with a growing problem with...

Black widows lurking in grocery bags

LONDON, Ontario — A Candian family was surprised to find a deadly black widow spider in a bag of organic...

Small Flies Are Big Pests

By: Stephen A. Kells How to troubleshoot small fly infestations As a pest management professional (PMP), how many times have you...

Pest Mystery

If you’ll recall from the July mystery (page 72), a mysterious critter digging in yards was immortalized in rhyme. The...

From the Field: Bayer Mobile University, Cleveland

CLEVELAND — When I arrived at Bayer’s Mobile University at the Southern Mill Creek Products of Ohio’s location here, the overflow from the parking lot...

Treatment countdown

By: Austin Frishman If Perry Mason were a PMP… One of my favorite TV shows is Perry Mason. Each show began with someone...

Birth control for geese and pigeons

By: Dr. Philip Whitford Research shows a bait pending EPA approval accomplishes long-term population suppression Expanding resident Canada goose populations have...

Borates: In Search of the ‘Sweet Spot’

By: Dr. Robert Krieger, Dr. Michael Rust, Dr. John Klotz, and Dr. Chris Amrhein Borates are popular insecticides, as evidenced by the number of...