Frank Meek, BCE – Pest Management Professional

Learn how the virtues and values of integrated pest management (IPM) helps with a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)...

For pest management professionals, sometimes there’s no telling what you may encounter on a service call. When a customer has...

This small elegant and beautiful animal has been credited with good and bad works, both natural and human-driven.

The first step in an integrated pest management (IPM)-based solution is, of course, to identify the pest. What is it,...

A client with a large warehouse facility calls complaining of moths fluttering around. When asked to describe them, he says they’re...

Now here’s a tip that might sound strange: Do not be 100 percent prepared. When I was a Boy Scout,...

You’re on the job when, suddenly, you notice the pesticide isn’t coming out of the compressed air sprayer smoothly, evenly...

Your customer calls and complains of small insects he thinks are fleas jumping around the house. You know they’re not...

Let’s say you have a rodent infestation indoors but can’t find any nesting or living sites. The building is in...

We have just passed flea bite season. Hopefully, it was productive for you and you weren’t bitten. Speaking of bitten,...

Not too long ago, I was playing golf on my local course when a beautiful small red fox (Vulpes vulpes),...

Who are the big bad boys in the ant world? When it comes to size, none are bigger than the...

Public opinion studies have always shown one of the biggest human fears is spiders. Most people are afraid of them....

The little fungus gnat is an increasingly common nuisance fly. There are two primary families of gnat found in North...

The old joke was: “you can identify a carpenter ant by his tool belt.” But the carpenter ant is nothing...