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Callback Cures: Atypical Food Sources Can Sustain Stored Product Pests

You inspected a customer’s house and found infested food in the pantry. Being a competent professional, you inspected and discarded...

Start-Up Diaries: Use Technology to Keep in Touch

I was reading an interesting interview in Sports Illustrated (my second-favorite magazine) a few months ago with the much-maligned commissioner of...

Conducive Conditions: The Last Straw (or Cigarette)

You have completed a facility assessment for a potential client. Cleaning, sanitation and maintenance are all lacking, and you know...

Ride Along: The Ins and Outs of a Typical Spider Call

Reading the mainstream media’s headlines, one would think the No. 1 feared pest is bed bugs. Ask a psychologist or...

Family Matters: Lloyd Pest Control

In 1937, Al Ogle traveled from Los Angeles to San Diego and bought The Lloyd Co. for $125. That’s no...

Added Value: Help Customers Visualize Buying Your Product or Service

A pest management professional’s (PMP’s) role during a sale is to help customers visualize buying a product or service. By...

Photo: USDA APHIS PPQ Archive, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org

Did You Know? Fire Ants

Red imported fire ant (RIFA) populations cost the United States more than $5 billion annually for medical treatment, damage and...

Live Legislative Day Coverage

The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) Legislative Day is underway in Washington, D.C. This year, the NPMA made the annual three-day...

Scherzinger Face Off: Sales and Marketing vs. Service

Eric: The age-old debate about sales vs. service is interesting. Everyone knows you wouldn’t put the cart before the horse...

Termite Technicians Combine Old Traditions with New Technologies

One of the best things Billy Black ever did, he contends, was leave Anderson, S.C. Another one of the best...

Ride Along: PMP Shadows Cooper Pest Solutions on an Apartment Bed Bug Job

Finally, an embedded reporter! In the trenches! A journalist’s dream come true! Although this particular writer doesn’t have the stomach...

The German Cockroach Makes a Comeback

You can’t tell the difference between bait aversion and sloppy baiting techniques by counting the number of cockroaches that are...

How I Got Here: Billy Tesh

Billy Tesh, Owner, Pest Management Systems Inc. (PMi), Greensboro, N.C. EDUCATION Class of 1977 Smith High School Greensboro, N.C. Class of 1979...

My Office: Marty Whitford, Editorial Director & Publisher, Pest Management Professional

Here’s a look at the office of Marty Whitford, Editorial Director & Publisher, Pest Management Professional (PMP), Cleveland. Scroll over...

Photo: Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org

Most Wanted: Drywood Termites

Drywood termites (Kalotermitidae) have committed offenses through insidiously cryptic infestations. Attacks cause significant cellulose consumption, which causes structural and wood...