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Dr. Stuart Mitchell

MITCHELL, D.O., DVM, PsyD, BCE, is technical director of PestWest, and a frequent contributor to PMP.

dos & don’ts: Rodentology

Dr. Stuart Mitchell
Do the applied rodentology and don’t let the house mouse (Mus domesticus) masticate and contaminate structures and food. As a medically significant pest, the house mouse must be eliminated though integrated pest management (IPM). Do define IPM as inspection and investigation, identification, establishing threshold levels, implementing two or more control measures (cultural, physical, mechanical, biorational […]
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Cat Fleas

One must be well studied in fleaology to develop a pest profile – a behavioral and investigative tool to assist...
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Rats Stink!

Right under our noses is a stinky and challenging situation that can provide opportunities for pest management professionals (PMPs) —...
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Dr. Stuart Mitchell

Most Wanted: Flies

With clandestine and potential malicious pathogenesis, Telmatoscopus albipunctatus (meaning white-dotted sword in condition of decline) brings a crime wave of...
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dos & don’ts: Flies

“The house fly gut may provide a favorable environment for the evolution and emergence of pathogenic bacterial strains through acquisition...
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Most Wanted: Fleas

These conspirators maliciously and covertly thieve and abscond with the lifeblood of humans and their companion animals. Fleas assail, feed...
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Most Wanted: Cockroaches

Guilty of criminal assaults on our nutrition and breathing, these habitual violators spread feces, regurgitation and body fragments, defiling our...
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