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The inaugural Tick Awareness Week is taking place this year May 10-16. PMPs are encouraged to educate their customers about...

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Research shows reptiles are poor transmitters of the Lyme disease bacterium, which means fewer southern ticks are infected and so...

New research shows cases of Lyme disease in the United States is higher than the Centers of Disease Control and...

Many pest management professionals are not yet familiar with the Asian longhorned tick, which is quickly making its way across...

Now we have a new tick in town, and this one has some nasty habits. Let’s meet Haemaphysalis longicornis, the...

The CDC has released a National Public Health Framework for the Prevention and Control of Vector-Borne Diseases in Humans.

Ticks transmit vector-borne diseases and applying a microencapsulated pyrethroid with a mist blower can provide long-term tick control.

Mild winters and wet springs in recent years have provided ticks with the perfect playground. Why are ticks so difficult...

With customers working in their yards and taking walks in parks and woods with family and pets, here are some...

Flies: Work with homeowners and commercial accounts to identify sanitation areas that need more of their attention. This could include...

All-American Pest Control crowned their 2020 Hometown Hero Award recipient and celebrated with a social distancing-friendly parade.

Take this tech test with questions and answers supplied by pest control industry experts to see how well you know...

Opossums (Didelphidae) are one of the most interesting species of wildlife pest management professionals deal with from a biological standpoint.

There is zero evidence that ticks transmit COVID-19, but they remain the most important vector of arthropod-borne disease in the...