Mark Sheperdigian – Page 3 – Pest Management Professional

Q: I’m considering bidding on a hotel that has a community garden right next door. What should I be concerned about?...

When cockroaches show up, your response is crucial. Take these five steps to avoid a crisis.

Differences between bat bugs and bed bugs are subtle, and it takes a microscope and a little training to tell...

Q: A potential hotel customer wants to know whether my company will provide compensation when guests report a bed bug or...

The only way to eliminate German cockroaches is to kill them.

⦁ Freshly hatched bed bugs can hide inside cast skins. ⦁ Vacuuming all evidence, as well as live bugs, is...

Read these expert recommendations for a complicated phorid fly problem in a mausoleum.

Instead of waiting for a product that “works better,” sharpen the skills that make all products work better.

Speaking to tenants can be challenging.

Many species of this fly are readily caught in insect light traps (ILTs).

Just when you think they’re gone, you get a call.

Many of the “bed bugs” that people find are not bed bugs at all.

Don’t let cockroaches become established before you’re onto them.

Whenever you see bulk onions in a produce section or in a storeroom, walk by and gently jostle them.

In my August column (“From dust to dust”), we discussed how dust is a must for good cockroach control. Now’s...