“Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth.” Dr. Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister of the Third Reich. Go to google scholar see if you find a single study on the effectiveness and repelancy of cedar oil “cedar oil” “cedrol” “cedrene” Essential Oil Mosquito Repellent 38 essential oils tested for comparative repellency against mosquito…
Top 10 Things The Pest Control Industry Does That Doesn’t Provide Value To The Customer. Caring about tattoos. Use foam for rodent and wildlife exclusion. Power spraying with a hose and rig around the foundation around the home. Free Inspections. Treating under the sink when there’s not really an issue there. Using Gel Bait as…
Bed Bug Control With IGR Insect Growth Regulators Juvenile Hormones and chitin synthesis inhibitor. What works, what dosnt work and what shows promise. Krüppel homolog 1 and E93 mediate Juvenile hormone methoprene regulation of metamorphosis in the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius We studied the regulation of molting and metamorphosis in bed bugs with a…
The Liability of Bed Bugs who is Responsible and who pays Who is responsible if a unit gets bedbugs? A furniture moving company delivers bed bugs. A used furniture store sells infested bunk beds. Are there any bed bug protocols? You just did a bed bug inspection with no PPE and you go perform a…
Hiring Green Vs Hiring Experienced Technicians Working for the wrong company can limit your career options. Hiring techs with experienced technicians can seem to be the easy button especially for technicians turned solo-preneurs with no previous management or human resource experience. But it’s a mixed bag experience can come with Bad Habits Re-trainability Superiority Complexes…
You’re Not Growing Because of what you believe to be true Everyone either has limits that they have not gotten too or they simply limit themselves! Your thinking and attitudes will limit what you do and how far you get! How you feel about hiring employees. Do you see employees as a liability or an…
Website Speed Is one of the Most Important Ranking Factors If your website cant load in 2 seconds or less your web designer is not a web developer. Top 5 web Page Speed Deterrents Images not being optimized Inline CSS Scripts Not Minified HTML Not Minified JScripts Not Minified NO CDN Content Delivery Network No…
No PPE and the PPE Police You see a tech making a pesticide application in short sleeves and shorts and you say how can he legally do that. If you carry products that require PPE like long sleeve shirt you may carry it in the vehicle and wear it when required Most Rockwell Lab Products…
Nacrophoric Behavior of Insects and How Termidor Works Necrophoric behavior of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Mayr) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and its implications for horizontal transfer of slow-acting insecticides 05“demonstrated that necrophoresis was an important behavior facilitating the horizontal transfer of fipronil.” http://www.pmaapestworld.com/PW08YoungScientist/documents/ChoeDong-HwanResearch.pdf Horizontal Transfer of Insecticides in Laboratory Colonies of the Argentine Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)…
The Repellency Myth Are Pyrethroids Really Repellant? For years we have been hearing from manufacturers and studies that pyrethroids are repellent yet where are the studies to prove it. I even talked about it in a previous podcast on repellency. I have spoken to many manufactures reps tell me that pyrethroids by nature are repellents and…