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Fiction: Treated wood will stop carpenter ant damage and infestation. Fact: Carpenter ants don’t eat wood; they excavate it. No matter what kind chemical treatment is used, they remain unaffected...

Dr. Gary Bennett, a member of the Pest Management Professional Hall of Fame’s Class of 2006, has helped countless professionals further their industry knowledge over the course of the last...

Photo courtesy of, and copyrighted by, Gene White, pmimages@earthlink.net BASF has filed a lawsuit alleging infringement on its fipronil production-process patent rights by Makhteshim Agan of North America (MANA), Control...

Cockroaches do expertly survive, changing minimally for 200 million years. If pest management professionals (PMPs) don’t expertly intervene, survival is certain. With more than 4,000 species globally, not all species...

Does your company train your employees about what to say? I’ve found writing suggested responses often helps employees do a better job when obstacles arise — and they will. Do...

Check out some of these fact vs. fiction about hornets.

SOUTH ELGIN, ILL.—McCloud Services will host its annual Pest Invasion food industry seminar on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Ill.  The all-day seminar...

The little fungus gnat is an increasingly common nuisance fly. There are two primary families of gnat found in North America, the Sciaridae and Mycetophilidae. Within these two families, there...

American Cockroach ■ The American cockroach is the largest of the house-infesting cockroaches. ■ These cockroaches are reported to spread at least 33 kinds of bacteria, six kinds of parasitic...

Virginia opossums, Didelphis virginiana (meaning double-wombed), range from the West Coast to the Central and Eastern United States. Habitats are numerous, ranging from areas low in rainfall to moisture abundant,...