It is apparently Tick Awareness week (May 4-10, 2025) , so be aware of ticks. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Ticks suck, literally...

Since Halloween is right around the corner, it’s time for scary bloodsuckers. Nope, not going to do mosquitoes (yet)! There are just so...

Thursday is World Pest Day. This was apparently initiated in 2017 and it “aims to raise awareness about the critical role of pest...

Personally, I’m not a fan of Valentine's Day. Since it is tomorrow, I will put my own romantic spin on it. A pest control spin! Who...

It’s almost October so I’m perfectly okay with starting the Halloween series. Because it is the best holiday of the year. I was doing a...

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...

Sometimes pest problems are relatively easy to manage. One or two visits, some targeted treatments, sanitation and exclusion...

Last week I started writing an article for a trade journal on small flies in food processing and wound up talking about all the food...

Charles Darwin once wrote to his friend: I am dying by inches, from not having anybody to talk to about insects. Over the last week, I...

It’s October and that means it’s my favorite season of the year: spider season! Living in Georgia (USA), we are under siege from the...

It’s been more than a year of blogging and Linked In posts so this is a great time to look back and see what you folks reacted to the...

I got my second dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday, so I’m sort of feeling like the crud on the bottom of the trash can that flies...

I seem to be doing quite a bit of tick work lately and there is some great research on ticks. We need research to help determine the most...

When I started college, I wasn’t really aware of entomology. I switched my major to entomology after my second year. My very first...

Since Halloween is right around the corner, it’s time for part two of the bloodsuckers edition. Nope, still not going to do mosquitoes...