Tips and Tricks – Page 61 – Pest Management Professional

Prebait whenever possible: It’s a proven method of acclimating rodents, especially rats, to newly placed traps and glueboards. Once you’ve...

Rodents use vibrissae to sense changes in air pressure and movement, so they know when you (or predators) are nearby....

Think ahead, and be proactive. Perform a professional rodent inspection on every account to find potential entry points, and repair...

Controlling rodents has been a continuous, million-dollar battle for years for pest management professionals (PMPs). But with new technology, such...

Approach rodent management with all your senses. ■ Vision is critical because not all rodent control signs are obvious. Use...

Inspections lay the foundation for establishing an effective rodent control program. It’s amazing that something as simple as “looking around”...

Here are three tips to improve your termite team’s efficiency: Do less. Thanks to molecular technology, many termiticides create an...

We’ve all run into difficult situations at accounts where we couldn’t catch the last few difficult mice in multiple-catch traps...

When we talk about wood-destroying insects and organisms (WDI/WDO), we tend to think only of subterranean termites — although this...

Here are five tools to help ensure a thorough termite inspection: Handheld methane detectors can sense the methane gas termites...

To determine if wood has been damaged by wood-decay fungi, insert the sharp point of a probe or sturdy knife...

For proper termite inspection (and thus treatment), become familiar with the leading edge veins and how many veins are characteristic...

Mud shelter tubes or tunnels are the most common signs of subterranean termite infestation, but here are seven more factors...

Termite bait stations are placed in the ground around a structure with pieces of wood inside as a prebait to...

Carpenter ants are sometimes called the termites of the North because of their propensity to damage wood and the...