Healthcare facilities like surgical centers, hospitals, nursing homes and clinics have several unique features that require pest management professionals (PMPs) to deploy special strategies and techniques. Because cockroaches are a reservoir of pathogenic bacteria, fungi and protozoa, cockroaches might pose life-threatening impacts to certain patients or senior residents whose immune system is impaired. On the […]
Oriental Cockroaches
Tips & Tricks: Locate moisture sources for Oriental cockroach control
The first step in controlling any pest is to make sure you identify it correctly. Unfortunately, misidentification can give cockroaches...
Most Wanted: Oriental Cockroach
The Oriental cockroach (Blatta Orientalis) has committed public health violations resulting from septic contamination of structures and food. Aliases: “Asiatic Cockroach,” “Shad Roach” and “Waterbug”...
Cockroach Combat Manual II Excerpt 1: Knowledge is Power
This primer on cockroach biology and behavior arms pest management professionals (PMPs) to combat this perpetual public health pest. “Cockroach...
Pest Colloquial Names and Mistaken Identities
It is interesting how many customers have their own names for pests based on what their parents and friends called...
Different Species Require a Different Approach
By: Austin Frishman A cockroach is a cockroach is a cockroach? When it pertains to control and elimination, not so. Sometimes...
Pest Identification: Oriental Cockroach
Cockroaches are one of the most successful animals known in the evolution of the planet. There are more than 3,500...