Pheromone glue traps are a great tool for monitoring stored food pest infestations and the success of your treatment. But often, glue boards containing these pheromones might not hold up to environmental conditions. They also can be inadvertently damaged by the customer. To protect glue boards, try these four steps: 1. Remove ramps from a multiple-catch […]
Stored Product Pests
Stored product pests include several types of insects that infest and ruin foods stored in pantries, like whole grains. Learn more about these pests.
Tips & Tricks: Five Steps to Pantry Pest Control
Five steps for controlling pantry pests: 1. Inspect and remove infested food products, including old grain, dust, flour and other food...
Tips & Tricks: Look Deeper to Solve Stored Product Pest Problems
When the basics of control still leave you with stored product pest problems at commercial accounts, look deeper to discover...
Ask the Expert: Bed Bugs, Grain Beetles, Termites and Rats
Q. What are the pros and cons of heat treatments for bed bug control? I have had great success with thorough...
Time is Money: IPM for IMM
A client with a large warehouse facility calls complaining of moths fluttering around. When asked to describe them, he says they’re...
Tips & Tricks: Stored Product Pest Management Options
Stored product pests can be annoyingly persistent in certain accounts, and fumigation isn’t practical in many areas. Removing the infested...
Ask the Expert: Springtails, Beetles and Drain Flies
Q. Recently, we had sunny, mild days and snow began to melt. Some snow banks were covered by thousands of springtails....
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...
Stored Product Pests: Some Pantry Pests Go Against the Grain
For decades, grain or pantry pests have been pigeonholed into one of four categories, under the assumption it helps pinpoint...
Ask the Expert: Ticks, Carpet Beetles, Wasps and Snakes
Q. Some companies in my area are spraying lawns for tick control, which I don’t think is necessary. I concentrate...
Ask the Expert: Erythraeid Mites, Pyrethoids and Moths
Q: We service a hospital that has what looks like clover mites entering rooms on the third floor. The nearest...
Fact vs. Fiction: Indianmeal Moths
Fiction: I froze my foodstuffs, but I still have Indianmeal moths (IMM) flying around my cabinets. Fact: Freezing stored products...
Ask the Expert: Carpenter Ants, Powderpost Beetles, Bees and Swarming Ants
Q: A customer has a carpenter ant problem in her kitchen. It’s early spring, so they’re not coming from outside....
Tips and Tricks: Are Termites the Problem? Location Makes a Difference
When we talk about wood-destroying insects and organisms (WDI/WDO), we tend to think only of subterranean termites — although this...
Ask the Expert: Phorid Flies, Migrating Cockroaches and Carpet Beetles
Q: A residential customer has a phorid fly problem. The house is on a slab. The drain lines have been...
Most Wanted: Plodia interpunctella
“Cleptoparasitic stored product pests are guilty of contaminating up to 10% of global grain supplies. Stored product pests can originate...