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What is the best way to reduce populations of mosquitoes?
The first and best defense against these pests and the illnesses they may carry is to eliminate the places where they breed. Here are a few suggestions:
Remove or empty water in old tires, tin cans, buckets, drums, bottles or other... more
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Greenheads Are No Day At The Beach
The salt marsh greenhead fly, Tabanus nigrovittatus, is an abundant and bothersome summertime pest along our coastal marshes. Because the females bite during daylight, and because they occur in large numbers, have a long flight range, and attack persistently, they interfere with the enjoyment of... more
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It's All In Where You Look: Effective Pest Control for Restaurants
Restaurants are filled with hidden pest pockets, often complete with food, water and shelter — the three essentials for a happy pest. If pests continue to trouble your restaurant those pests have found some especially good hiding places…and you’ve missed them!
To get results, you’ll have to... more
How To Pest Proof Your Commercial Facility
As the warmer weather of summer arrives this year, the season also brings with it night flying insects that are attracted to a facility’s lights. To ensure your facilities aren’t a magnet to swarms of these pests, here are nine light management tips you can implement around your facilities to... more
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Study Says Cockroaches Exchange Food Tips
LONDON (June 5) -- Next time you raise your shoe to squish a cockroach, ponder this: You might be just about to kill the insect world's version of a Zagat restaurant reviewer. Because according to new research published in the journal, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, roaches behave like... more
What You Should Know About Ticks
Ticks, like fleas, are parasitic insects that feed on the blood of a host animal. They transmit a variety of diseases, the most well known is Lyme’s Disease. Since the habits of the tick are much like that of the flea, a lot of what you read about ticks on this site will apply to the flea and... more
Spring & Summer Rains Bring A Deluge of Pest Invasions
The warm, wet spring of New England this year creates a climate that fosters the reproduction and growth of ants, spiders, crickets, ladybugs, yellow jackets, hornets, mice and rats.Excessive rainfall over a short period of time floods the soil and cause insects, especially ants, to... more
Demand For Pest Control Up 70% In Chile
Rats, spiders and cockroaches thrive after earthquake
An influx of rats and spiders after the earthquake have caused a boom in pet control business. Janice Wu, Santiago Times
The number of pests in Chile has gone through the roof, causing up to 70 percent increased demand for pest control... more
Five Things You Should Know About Carpenter Ants
1. Carpenter ants forage in excess of 100ft which means that your pest problem could be coming from your neighbor’s property.
2. Carpenter ants colonies grow slowly in the first two years then grow very quickly. If you see swarming carpenter ants, this means you have a mature colony, at least... more
Best Management Practices for Controlling Bed Bugs: An Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Approach
Pesticides alone should not be used to control bed bugs. The most effective program for eliminating bed bugs is one that utilizes Integrated Pest Management (IPM). IPM is the use of all possible methods in a logical combination that minimizes risk of pesticide exposure, safeguards the environment,... more
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