[00:00:02] Hey welcome back. Welcome back to another edition of the pestgeek podcast. I am your host Frank Hernandez and we’re gonna be discussing culex mosquitoes. That’s right. It’s mosquito season soon as those temperatures rise above 70 degrees they start coming out and they start populating and we’re going to be covering culex mosquitoes…
So those are the two main categories of rodenticides we have the anticoagulant non-anticoagulant and then underneath the anticoagulant rodenticides we have first generation anticoagulant rodenticides and we have second-generation anticoagulants rodenticides and Il talk a little bit about LD 50 and then some of the pros and cons of first generation and second generation…
[00:00:03] Hey welcome back to this edition of the pest geek podcast. I am your host Frank Hernandez and we’re going to be discussing and Anopheles mosquitoes on this edition. So the Anopheles mosquito is a very common mosquito in the U.S. there’s several species of them in the U.S. basically they almost divide the…
Euthanasia meaning a good death the animal must be unconscious while dying, Humane Dispatch how do we kill the animal in a humane way.
Every generation says that the upcoming generation will never make it and yet every generation has made it, Yet there are many men and women that are a new breed of pest control and have success under 40.
Looking at your surrounding in the front doors attracting flies inside the building.
FlowZone makes a great battery backpack sprayer I know I have one the first original units its almost 3 years old, I also own a large unit Typhoon 4-Gallon Multi-Use Continuous-Pressure 18V/5.2Ah Lithium-Ion Backpack Sprayer and two other Cyclone 4-Gallon Multi-Use Continuous-Pressure 18V/2.6Ah Lithium-Ion Backpack Sprayer. My biggest disappointments where the straps, they were not…
I am an ACE and it matters. By Aaron J. Veal ACE Associate Certified Entomologist I am an Associate Certified Entomologist (ACE). Sounds fancy but what does it mean and why would you care? The Enotomological Society of America (ESA) says that the ACE certification is the future and benchmark for professionalism in the pest management industry and…
In a laboratory test paraffin oil, 18 essential oils, 3 silicone oils, and were studied for their toxicities against bed bugs. Silicone 1, 2, 3, and paraffin oil outperformed all essential oils tested while neem, basil, anis star, and peppermint performed the least. Best performing essential oils where blood orange and Chinese cedarwood. The oils…
This study is the first to demonstrate p-anisaldehyde’s repellent properties against an arthropod pest. The component p-Anisaldehyde has been found in various plant and has been shown effective in many modes of action against the lone star tick Amblyomma americanum (L.), https://academic.oup.com/jme/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jme/tjx158/4344918