Pest Trends – Pest Management Professional

Drosophilids: Handling the nagging flies around kitchens and bars

A small pest hovers lazily before alighting on the wall in a kitchen environment. What could it be? As difficult...

Yellow fever mosquito (A. aegypti) PHOTO: ISTOCK.COM/TEPTONG

A new way to disrupt mosquitoes? Sweet

A high-sugar diet can interfere with the ability to sense humidity in yellow fever and common house mosquito species.

Fig. 1 Adult Eastern wood weevils (Hexarthrum ulkei). PHOTO: DR. MOHAMMED EL DAMIR

Managing wood-destroying weevils: Prevention, identification and treatment strategies

Wood-destroying weevils infest decaying or damp wood, causing significant structural damage if left unchecked. While they do not pose direct...

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Consider plague risk when dealing with fleas, rodents — and cats

Learn more about the three main transmission routes that the bacterium that causes plague, Yersinia pestis.

Per the National Pest Management Association, bed bugs “can ingest seven times their own weight in blood, which would be the equivalent of an average-sized male drinking 120 gallons of liquid.” (Photo: Tomasz Klejdysz / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Getty Images)

Pest Trends: A holistic approach to bed bug management

In recent years, bed bugs have reemerged as a substantial challenge for the professional pest management industry.

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Study: Ant pheromones repel black-legged ticks

New research from Burnaby, British Columbia-based Simon Fraser University (SFU) suggests the use of ant pheromones as either a topical...

Fig. 1: Distribution of established brown widow populations (yellow) and sporadic, smaller populations of brown widow (blue). Information originally compiled by Dr. John Wallace and Brian Daggs, Millersville University, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Learn more at StoryMaps.arcgis.com. SOURCE: ILLUSTRATION: MINIATURE/DIGITALVISION VECTORS/GETTY IMAGES

Hide-and-seek with brown widow spiders

Twenty years on, the brown widow is now ubiquitous in southern California, but is seldom observed because of its reclusive...

Fighting silverfish in a hoarder’s home

Natasha Wright, BCE, shares a firsthand account of encountering an unusually high concentration of this pest.

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Polish your silverfish skills

"To effectively control and prevent silverfish, it’s important to use a combination of chemical and non-chemical control methods," says Dr....

Yeast-based biopesticide could be future control method for PMPs

Arecent success in controlling the Colorado potato beetle using a novel yeast delivery technology for ribonucleic acid leads Renaissance BioScience...

Live trapping a ‘smart’ roof rat

Dr. Hanif Gulmahamad, BCE, PCA, gives several tips on how to trap the "smart rat."

5 tips for preventing retail SPP infestations

Pat Kelley, president of Insects Limited, gives tips for preventing retail stored product pest infestations.

Making sense of pest management

Use all five senses to make better-informed decisions in your inspection and treatment strategies.

Microclimates 101

Let’s examine residential situations, both inside and outside, that demonstrate how to choose the right formulation and type of product...

Study finds moisture link to carpenter ant activity levels

According to a new study released this spring, the severity of carpenter ant activity in Central New York State is...