Tips & Tricks: Using Spiders to Your Advantage
Douglas Webb The spiders encountered in homes and businesses are typically hunters or trappers, capturing live insects for food. Hunting spiders seek their prey (mostly crawling insects) by running...
View ArticleSkyscraper in the City of Angels Site of Insect Research
Have you ever wondered what insects think of skyscrapers? The U.S Bank Tower in Los Angeles. Photo credit: mrjoro/Foter/CC BY-NC-SA Scientists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles have. To find...
View ArticleBrothers in Rockaway Launch EZ-Pest Exterminating
Rockaway, N.Y., brothers Matthew and Henry Moers launched the EZ-Pest Exterminating pest management company. The brothers, 22, got the bug for pest extermination from their uncle, the owner of Creepy...
View ArticleSyngenta PestPartners gets jump on 2016
Although the fall season is bringing colder weather, the PestPartners 365 Program is just starting to warm up. Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2015, qualifying purchases of Syngenta Professional Pest...
View ArticleTruly Nolen Wins Technology Award in Tucson
Truly Nolen of America Inc. won a Copper Cactus Award from the Tucson Metro Chamber. The Nextrio Innovation through Technology Award honors businesses that are locally-owned (in Southern Arizona) and...
View ArticleTop 10 Business and Tech Tips from PMP Cadenhead
Michael Cadenhead, an associate certified entomologist (ACE) and CEO of Cadenhead Services Pest Control offers some tips to help grow your business. Learn more about Cadenhead and his company here....
View ArticleService Pro: ServSuite Mobile App
The ServSuite Mobile App is a complete companion to ServSuite software, making it possible for users to go paperless with work orders and proposals. It allows you to manage your schedule, view account...
View ArticleSt. Paul City Council Changes Street Name to Ecolab Place
The St. Paul, Minn., City Council changed the name of a stretch of Washington Street to Ecolab Place following the purchase of Travelers Tower by Ecolab Inc., parent company of Ecolab Pest Elimination....
View ArticleRoadtrip Roundup: Celebrating 20 Years of Academy
This year’s National Pest Management Association (NPMA) Academy theme was “Motivate, Collaborate and Innovate.” Attendees were challenged to learn how to combine all three to gain and keep star talent...
View ArticleP.E.S.T. Relief International: REST Initiative
You have the power to change lives with the REST Initiative, providing orphanages and shelters a safe place to sleep. Professionals Empowering, Sustaining & Transforming (P.E.S.T.) Relief...
View ArticleHall of Fame Inductee John Cook Built Company on Respect
John Cook built one of the largest pest control companies in the country on honesty, courtesy, respect and customer satisfaction. John R. Cook Sr. In 1950, after graduating from Georgia Tech with a...
View ArticleSrebnik joins Truly Nolen in PR post
Longtime public relations professional Toby Srebnik has joined Truly Nolen Pest Control as in-house manager of public relations, social media and community events. He is based in West Park, Fla. A...
View ArticleArizona Pest seeks to ‘exterminate’ breast cancer
With the goal of helping to “exterminate” breast cancer, employees of Arizona Pest Control are wearing throughout October to help promote awareness of the disease. “I wish that every business would...
View ArticleControl Solutions Inc.: Pivot Ultra
Pivot Ultra is a quick-knockdown aerosol insecticide with an insect growth regulator (IGR) to break the life cycle of fleas, ticks, ants, cockroaches, spiders and more. It kills adult fleas and...
View ArticleFPS’ Epley, Nettles achieve ACE status
Carmel, Ind.-based Food Protection Services LLC has two new Associate Certified Entomologists (ACEs) on its team. Perry Nettles and Greg Epley were recently certified as Associate Entomologists by the...
View ArticleNoad Corley Joins Industry Friends in the Hall of Fame
Noad Corley When Noad Corley (1918-2000) is inducted into the Hall of Fame next month, he’ll be listed among many industry friends — including Bill Spitz, Class of 2006. “At every meeting, Noad stood...
View ArticleBayer offers fall savings
Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, announces its 2015 Fall Savings Program, offering pest management professionals (PMPs) instant savings on multiple Bayer solutions. The...
View ArticleLiphatech: Rodent Technical Bulletin
Liphatech’s latest Technical Bulletin provides an in-depth description of variables to consider when developing integrated pest management (IPM) programs in school settings. Authored by Ted Bruesch,...
View ArticleAEPMA names top pest managers
The Australian Environmental Pest Managers Association (AEPMA) recently held its annual gala dinner to honor pest management professionals in the area. They recognized Pestec as the Australian Pest...
View ArticleMeet Dr. Laurel Hansen, 2015 Hall of Fame Inductee
Dr. Laurel Hansen may actually be an unparalleled U.S. researcher of all things ants. They’re more than her favorite pest to study. They also pave the road of her career in academia — from the first...
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