SenesTech Inc., developer of proprietary technologies for managing animal pest populations through fertility control, revealed a sales agreement and initial delivery of ContraPest to a Hawaii natural resources program. The product will be used for the control of rodents in an outdoor setting, under an experimental use permit to control wild rats that prey upon […]
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Managing moths at a museum
Custom Pest Solutions helps solve a Tineola bisselliella infestation at the Betsy Ross House. While performing a residential termite inspection...
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...
Interior carpenter ant nests aren’t always in wood
Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are important pests. In some regions, they are the primary wood-destroying insect (WDI) encountered by pest...
Bed bugs: A PMP’s tale of dealing with hoarding
In 2015, we received a call from the concerned daughter of an elderly woman who had bed bugs for years...
Flying insect infesting Florida’s Marco Island identified
Scientists have identified the shore fly (Scatella tenuicosta) as the flying insect that has been infesting Marco Island, Florida, beaches over...
Restaurant roach removal
Cockroach treatment for commercial restaurant accounts requires a little something extra. The public, as well as your commercial customers, is...
Determine infestations: Cockroaches by the numbers
Mark Sheperdigian describes how a cockroach infestation is classified and determined based on the ratio of nymphs to adults.
Bed bugs: Do mattress encasements help?
⦁ Mattress encasements can help reassure customers traumatized by a bed bug infestation. ⦁ Mattress encasements can help techs easily...
Tips & Tricks: Capitalize on bed bug misidentifications
No one wants bed bugs, but reports of bed bug bites are the rise. Also on the rise is misidentification...
Video: Family reports ‘plague of rats’ fueled by neighbor
A family in Southhampton, England, shared a video with the Southern Daily Echo of dozens of rats roaming their neighbor's...
Contest: Tell us your worst pest nightmare
I’d like to think some version of this conversation has occurred at least once at every pest management company: “Man,...
Video: Snakes infest Florida apartment
A woman in Casselberry, Fla., left her home after numerous snakes invaded her apartment by slithering between the floorboards and...
I.D. this blogger’s 8-legged invader …
Perhaps one of our readers can confirm something for me. Though I write for pest professionals, I am not one....
Guardian Pest Solutions with Hao Yu
Stored product pests are a common problem for Hao Yu, technical director at Guardian Pest Solutions, which is based in...