About Dr. Stuart Mitchell

With insect behavior adapted to essentially every man-made habitat, the German cockroach, Blatella germanica, is arguably one of the most successful endophilic pest species. Always a public health concern, the......

Do the applied biology, and don’t let German cockroaches, Blatella germanica, spread pathogens and allergens that cause environmental exposure and illness. Instead, eliminate cockroaches though an environmentally benign process of......

With behavior adapted to numerous manmade structures, Polistines or paper wasps, Polistes spp., can be a challenging architectural antagonist. The paper wasp is a flying foe for pest management professionals......

The broad study of ants is called myrmecology (Greek Mýrmēx, or ant). Pest management professionals (PMPs) are well educated in applied myrmecologists. Ant species are eusocial (highly organized), living in......

Do the applied myrmecology and don’t let black carpenter ants, Camponotus pennsylvanicus, damage structures. Eliminate ants through integrated pest management (IPM), which is environmentally benign. Do understand that in temperate......

Do the applied siphonapterology Don’t let the tropical rat flea (sometimes known as the Oriental rat flea) become a danger as disease vectors. Its scientific name, Xenopsylla cheopis, roughly translates......

Siphonapterology, the study of wingless tubes, is the branch of entomology that studies fleas. To control the tropical rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), sometimes referred to as the Oriental rat flea,......

Araneaeology is the study of spiders. As araneaeologists, pest management professionals (PMPs) investigate offenses of our sensibilities. Through their mere presence, spiders can offend customers visually and psychologically. The commonly......

Dipterology is the study of true flies in the order Diptera (from the Greek di, or two, and ptera, or wings). One must be a dipterologist to develop a house......

“When a group of genetically identical mice lived in the same complex enclosure for three months, individuals that explored the environment more broadly grew more new neurons than less adventurous......