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March 16, 2017

Donnie Shelton talks inbound marketing

Donnie Shelton, president and CEO of Charlotte, N.C.-based Triangle Pest Control, talks about how he got into the pest control industry at the National Pest Management Association‘s PestWorld 2016. Shelton,......

March 09, 2017

Southwest Exterminators service vehicle falls victim to sinkhole

A Southwest Exterminators service vehicle fell into a sinkhole while at an account in Washington City, Utah. The pest management firm’s owner Eric Palmer tells St. George News a technician was......

March 07, 2017

Video: Mosquitoes invade Adele performance in Australia

Adele was pestered by mosquitoes during one of her weekend performance in Brisbane, Australia — and a fan caught the comical interaction on video. While the 28-year-old singer addresses the......

March 02, 2017

Invasive Species Awareness Week webinars now available

National Invasive Species Awareness Week (NISAW) aims to “raise awareness and identify solutions to invasive species issues at local, state, tribal, regional, international and national scales.” The 2017 event is taking......

March 01, 2017

Lonnie Alonso stresses importance of pest industry’s communication with legislators

Lonnie Alonso, president of Columbus Pest Control in Columbus, Ohio, stresses the importance and value of pest management professionals (PMPs) having a good rapport with legislators. A second-generation PMP, Alonso......

February 28, 2017

Video: Bumblebees exhibit unique cognitive ability

Bumblebees have demonstrated a unique learning ability that has “never been seen before in insects,” according to a new study published in the journal Science. The insects learned how to......

February 23, 2017

UK university receives $2 million grant for vector control product research

The U.K.’s Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s (LSTM) Department of Vector Biology received a $2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a research program to establish......

February 21, 2017

Students release lady beetles for IPM in educational greenhouse

A group of 4-H students released 1,300 Asian lady beetles (Harmonia axyridis) into a Geothermal Greenhouse Partnership (GGP) greenhouse in Pagosa Springs, Colo., as part of its Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program. The......

February 16, 2017

NPMA to host 2 public health workshops

The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) is hosting two one-day workshops focused on public health pest control, with an emphasis on the structural pest management industry’s role in controlling mosquitoes......

February 14, 2017

Insectarium planned for American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History plans to open an insectarium in 2020 as part of a new 235,000-square-foot facility. The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation’s Insectarium......