I was giving a webinar on rodents last week and someone asked a brilliant question: what can you do when the pest problem is coming from...

Apparently, March is National Flour Month. It’s also National Invasive Species Week this week. It only makes sense to feature flour...

Pesticides often get a bad reputation, especially in the media, and can be viewed as “nasty chemicals” or “harmful” or even just “evil”....

I had some pictures sent to me by a pest control bestie so now my brain has been stuck on the Dermestid beetles. All names have been...

I’ve been working on an article for a trade journal. It’s sort of a “your job/our job” for those who contract out their pest control...

I received a picture the other day of a pest to identify. This, by itself, is nothing out of the ordinary: I get many texts and emailed...

As sometimes happens, I have a blog post almost ready to go. Then something happens, or I see an article, or my news feed lights up. What...

Yet again, I bring you something ripped from the headlines. It’s timely, it’s horrifying, it’s appalling… it’s pest control. Some quick...

At PestWorld this last week, there were lots of cool things that I took back with me. No, not just swag (though I did score four pairs of...

Buckle up for a deep dive. We have some of the safest food in the US, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t issues. Here’s what’s going on...

House flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, and more can all get inside structures. They are all known to carry food-borne diseases. They can...

This episode marks the 210th weekly blog post. That’s more than four years of weekly (ranting) writing about all things urban pest...

I have a small compost bucket I keep under my kitchen counter until it is ready to be taken out. That means it sits there for maybe two...

Actual conversation I had with a client the other day: Client: I don’t understand why we still have this problem. Me: How long has it...

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...

If you’ve been following along, we posted for the last two weeks on the 12 days of Christmas pest control style. Here’s how it went this...

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...

This week is Thanksgiving in the US. For my international friends, it’s a complicated holiday that I won’t get into. It involved a lot of...

I was at a state conference last week and had lots of fun talking with folks and giving a presentation on ticks. A tick talk! That led to...

What causes you pain? There is physical pain (falling down the stairs after the cat trips you), and there is emotional pain. There is the...