Bob Clements, Rick Lewis and Jim Warneke are putting their combined 150 years of pest management experience to good use on the high seas. If a pest problem is discovered on a cruise ship, rest assured the ship’s pest management team will move rapidly to solve the problem. And that’s exactly as it should be. […]
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Bed bug management tips from PMPs
Pest management professionals (PMPs) who regularly battle bed bugs share strategies that work for them. Identify the pest. “Proper identification...
6 tips for better bed bug management
Bed bugs are a major problem across the country. Pest management professionals (PMPs) who have successfully battled the pests share...
How IPM helps beat bed bugs in multi-family housing
Luis Agurto Jr., president of San Francisco-based Pestec, and his team work with like-minded partners that take the principles of integrated pest...
PMPs: Get to know your bed bug monitors
⦁ Active monitors are meant to attract, whereas passive monitors simply wait. ⦁ Choose monitors to fit the needs of...
Q&A: Window damage from heat treatments, ‘hazardous material’ and mice
Email your questions about insect identification and pest management technologies and techniques to Dr. Doug Mampe at dentomol@aol.com. Your questions...
10 recent bed bug developments
The idea that bed bugs were a flash in the pan and will die out is not proving to be...
PMPs predict problem pests for 2017
Pest management professionals (PMPs) from around the country predict which pest or pests they foresee becoming the biggest problem for...
Canine bed bug detection: Get the facts
Trained bed bug scent detection dogs can search many rooms and large areas with surprising accuracy. Results for some areas...
Bed bug’s oldest relatives discovered in Oregon
The oldest insect remains of the genus Cimex, which common bed bugs belong to, were found by archeologists in southern...
Bed bugs: A PMP’s tale of dealing with hoarding
In 2015, we received a call from the concerned daughter of an elderly woman who had bed bugs for years...
A day in the life of Bed Bug Central and Cooper Pest Solutions’ Jeff White
Director, Innovation and Technical Content, Bed Bug Central and Cooper Pest Solutions, Lawrenceville, N.J. Editor’s Note: Learn about White’s recent...
Stepping up bed bug education efforts
Educating the customer is an important part of a pest management professional’s (PMP’s) job. Jeff White, director of Innovation and...
NPMA Global Bed Bug Summit focuses on research
Research was plentiful at the National Pest Management Association’s (NPMA’s) Global Bed Bug Summit, which was held in Nov. 30...
Dr. Drew talks bed bugs with Bed Bug Central’s Jeff White
To shed light on the bed bug problem in California, radio personality Dr. Drew will interview Jeffrey White, director of...
Teens invent pest-eradicating hovercraft
A group of Canadian high school students, who call themselves the Bug Dusters, invented a hovercraft that sprays insecticides using...