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When was the last time you rotated your bait? Most folks are fairly used to this question. We know that many of our pests, especially German cockroaches and bed bugs, exhibit both resistance and aversion to many of our common insecticides. Professionals are used to rotating cockroach and ant baits, and even pretty good about rotating liquid residuals. Nearly every time I’m called into an issue and I ask, “When’s the last time you rotated the rodenticide?” I get some weird loo

One of the reasons I have the best job is that I get to troubleshoot. I get to try to put puzzles together, often without all the pieces. I tend to have a “standard” set of questions I start with to pry out additional information, and then I let my brain start working through the problem. I know that when a question gets to me, it’s likely the client has already tried all the “basic” IPM steps so it’s always exciting to start thinking about how to get creative with pest contr