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Fiction: I froze my foodstuffs, but I still have Indianmeal moths (IMM) flying around my cabinets. Fact: Freezing stored products (grains, cereals, spices, dried fruits, nuts, etc.) for a minimum...

Don’t let American cockroaches, Periplaneta americana, invade and contaminate structures and threaten public health. Control cockroaches by counting on integrated pest management (IPM). Do correctly identify the cockroach species because...

Fiction: Feeding pigeons makes the world a better place and doesn’t hurt anybody. Fact: Feeding pigeons, deliberately or unintentionally, is the foundation of most pigeon problems. Once the birds have identified...

As the most abundant of social insects (estimated at 1 quadrillion at any given time), more than 12,500 of an estimated 22,000 species of ants are classified. About 1,000 species...

We preach that complete pest elimination is our goal and that we must seek the source to achieve this. I often tell pest management professionals (PMPs) to start with four...

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Harvard University turned to the insect world to help develop robots of all things. Researchers designed a crew of tiny robots capable of building complicated structures without using  blueprints or...

Do the applied biology and don’t let Polistines or paper wasps, Polistes spp., nest within architectural features that place inhabitants at risk of stings. Eliminate wasps through an environmentally benign...

To paraphrase Hillary Clinton, new research shows “it takes a village” to raise a bed bug. A recent study looked into the question of whether Cimex lectularius nymphs reared in...

One of the most interesting raccoon jobs we had was when The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the Temple of Dendur display area had a live raccoon. Can you imagine...