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I have a lot of Google alerts for words relating to pest control. I typically skim through, look for any scientific articles and quickly delete. Then this one caught my eye.   Ugh, here we go again, I think to myself. And yes, here we go again. Now, I get it. Pesticides are scary, especially when you call them “poisons”. Yes, they are intended to knock down the pest. Yes, some are poisonous (ingested). Yes, we want to make sure only the target animal is impacted by the pesti

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...

I’m probably going to get some pushback from this, but I don’t like birds. I admit that birds of prey, like raptors and owls, are very...

I am an entomologist by training and certification, but I really enjoy talking about rodents. As someone in the pest control field, I’m...

I posted a few days ago about a record setting fine leveled against a company due to violating food safety laws. There were numerous...

You know with a headline like this I absolutely have to find out what’s going on: And since it is 100% effective, pest control companies...

There it is, you are the problem. While I do agree, there are some problems with this. Pests have been associated with humans for...

We talk about how important it is to control rodents. They eat our foods and contaminate what’s left. They damage our structures and chew...

For all those that regularly follow me, you know that my blogs are often about situations I have been in, articles that have recently hit...

I looked today and this is my 100th blog post. I can hardly believe I have been writing every week for 100 weeks and that means in four...

I’m probably going to get some pushback from this, but I don’t like birds. I admit birds of prey like raptors and owls are very...

True story: when I was little, I wanted to be a ballet dancing muppet astronaut. Ballet lasted about six months, I still like the...