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Have You Heard the Buzz? (AKA: What's biting me)
It’s Mosquito Awareness Week. Feel free to send your mosquito related gifts to me. Until they get here, here’s your gift from me: new...

Chelle Hartzer
Jun 18, 20242 min read


Pop Quiz (AKA: Where's your bugs?)
Last week was“Bed Bug Awareness Week”. Are you excited, did you celebrate?!?! Since the re-emergence of bed bugs in the US in the early...

Chelle Hartzer
Jun 11, 20243 min read


Holiday Season! (AKA: Celebrate good times)
Thursday is World Pest Day. This was apparently initiated in 2017 and it “aims to raise awareness about the critical role of pest...

Chelle Hartzer
Jun 4, 20242 min read


It Costs That Much (AKA: You get what you pay for)
Buckle up folks, I’ve got a great one for you this week: someone had to pay for pest control services! Oh, the horror! Let’s break this...

Chelle Hartzer
Apr 16, 20243 min read


I Don’t Hate Cats 2 (AKA: Here we go again)
I can’t believe this is still coming up. Well, no…I can believe it. I looked back through my old posts and I posted about this in 2022...

Chelle Hartzer
Mar 12, 20243 min read


Behaving Badly (AKA: What’s in your luggage?)
It’s come up a few times in the last few weeks so it’s definitely sticking in my mind. I’m also about to travel out of state for some...

Chelle Hartzer
Feb 27, 20243 min read


Angry birds! (AKA: What a bird brain)
I’m taking my morning walk today and over the podcast I am listening to, I hear a cardinal start chirping. Now, when I start hearing the...

Chelle Hartzer
Feb 20, 20244 min read


Talk Dirty to Me (AKA: More than four letter words)
While I talk about this topic quite a bit within posts, I don’t often focus on it. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes you can see...

Chelle Hartzer
Feb 6, 20244 min read


Take that Nostradamus! (AKA Pudge controls the weather)
At the beginning of every year, it seems I get a lot of questions on what’s going to be “the thing” this year for pest control. It’s...

Chelle Hartzer
Jan 9, 20242 min read


Sweating the Small Stuff (AKA: Know what makes me sick?)
Picture this: it’s the holidays and you have friends and relatives over for a party, or maybe it’s the office holiday party. Of course...

Chelle Hartzer
Nov 28, 20232 min read


I Was Today Years Old...(AKA: Old dog, new tricks)
A few weeks ago I was at the National Pest Management Association meeting. This week I'm at what I fondly call my "bug geek" conferences....

Chelle Hartzer
Nov 7, 20232 min read


10 Questions with a Pro (AKA:
It's the next episode in our recurring series: ten questions with a pro. Every other month, I’m interviewing a “pro” to find out what...

Chelle Hartzer
Oct 24, 20234 min read
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