Guest Post: Maximize earwig control with a granular insecticide.
Here in north Florida, earwig control really started getting heavy a few years ago. In the past, our customers used to see a few dead earwigs at their door step every now and then, but they started seeing them throughout the house – sometimes all the way into the second-floor bathrooms! I even started seeing MORE
Say goodbye to call-backs by using an insecticide with residual.
In pest control, it’s pretty obvious when something isn’t working — the phone starts ringing. So in late 2011, when Zach Ivey of Cypress Creek Pest Control of Houston was getting calls from customers, he knew something was wrong. Ivey had been testing new general insecticides for his residential customers, but each one resulted in MORE
A Florida PMP confirms bed bug treatments in restaurants with Verifi®.
A bed bug walks into a bar… Sounds like the start of a bad joke, but for Jerry Camp of Best Termite & Pest Control, Inc. in Tampa, bed bugs in restaurants and bars is no laughing matter. Camp, the company’s pest control supervisor, was called to a local sports bar and given a mission MORE
Develop a white-footed ant control program that stops them in their tracks.
White-footed ants peaked in Southwest Florida three years ago, creating an explosion of business for Fort Myers Pest Control. Accounts in both their lawn care and general household pest control divisions were affected by the invasion. “The day white-footed ants decide to visit your house and not the neighbor’s is a day you will never MORE
Bed Bug Detector Review: Taking the ‘Creep Factor’ Out of Bed Bug Work
Once you’ve had bed bugs, it’s tough to get over it. There is a definite ‘Creep Factor’ involved. Even if you just had one bed bug, you will always wonder if there are more. Our customers often have reactions to insect infestations, like cockroaches, but it’s more personal with bed bugs – after all, they MORE
Transport® Mikron™: a go-to bed bug insecticide for this Wisconsin PMP
Will White faced his first bed bug encounter a decade ago when he got a call about a bed bug infestation in a student apartment at a local college. “I’d never seen anything like it; they were everywhere – walking up and down the walls like cockroaches,” says the Milwaukee-based pest management professional. “We got MORE
Talstar® Professional review: The flexibility of Talstar Professional insecticide can’t be beat!
Versatility means a lot to Dave Passon, owner of Advanced Termite & Pest Control in Crossville, Tennessee. Finding an insecticide product he can use that is effective for a variety of pests was key to his success in the pest management business. That product is Talstar® Professional insecticide. “I started using Talstar Professional right after MORE
Perform a successful carpenter ant treatment with an aerosol insecticide.
Gary Pietrucha knows the power of small. When he started his own pest management business 25 years ago in the northern Chicago suburbs, his goal was to remain a size where he could easily service his customers. “I never wanted to get so large that I lost sight of who I am,” says Pietrucha, who MORE
Tame termites in the Wild West with a subterranean termite treatment.
When I bought my pest management business in 2005, the company had done mostly termite treatments up until then. My goal was to continue that work and branch into general pest control work, as well. Due to the decline in the housing market, termite treatments tapered off, but the general household pest market really picked MORE
Verifi™ bed bug detectors give Alright Pest Solutions dependable confirmation of bed bug detection.
Despite having 13 years in the pest control business, Jeff O’Brien of Ohio’s Alright Pest Solutions had not been on a bed bug call until December of 2011. It was just a few months after he and his son founded the Lexington, Ohio based company, which serves both commercial and residential accounts. Learning quickly just MORE
