Category Archives: Pest Management

In my rounds as a pest management professional, I have witnessed many types of flying insect control. A lot of facilities use glue-board type fly lights. Electrocuting types are all but forbidden near food. Air curtains are popular in some businesses. Sticky fly hangers are common in garages. The backyard blue light bug zapper isContinueContinue reading “Bug Light -vs- Salt Gun”

I was the first one ready for lunch. Text messages exchanged between coworkers said that each of us had different timelines for our midday break. We all had accounts that, for various reasons, didn’t follow that said timeline. I grabbed some fast food and headed for my favorite park, a place I found when weContinueContinue reading “Lunch Is On Me – Thinking Out Loud”

Carpenter AntDoesn’t eat wood, only tunnel through it. Associated with high moisture. Considered predators & scavengers. Will eat other insects. Woodlouse SpiderSometimes known as “Broad-faced sac spider”.Egg sac may contain up to 70 eggs. The long fangs help maintain a scissor-like grip on prey. Larder BeetleTypically travel in groups, don’t try to hide. Are omnivores.ContinueContinue reading “Summer Buggin’ 2020”

Your job, and your passion, and your career is working in the pest management industry. Mine, too. Obviously. We are tasked with driving a company vehicle to customer locations each day. Our employers trust that we will be safe and courteous in that 6000 pound vehicle. Our clients probably don’t care about our driving habits,ContinueContinue reading “Watch Your Speed pt.2”

As I am waiting for a chocolate cake to finish baking, I am aggravated that this Kansas weather has given us another taste of winter. Looking out the kitchen window, I can see the limbs of the trees bending like they are doing some sort of yoga pose. The Dead End sign at our drivewayContinueContinue reading “Watch Your Speed pt.1”