This week is Thanksgiving in the US. For my international friends, it’s a complicated holiday that I won’t get into. It involved a lot of...

A few weeks ago I was at the National Pest Management Association meeting. This week I'm at what I fondly call my "bug geek" conferences....

It's the next episode in our recurring series: ten questions with a pro. Every other month, I’m interviewing a “pro” to find out what...

It’s almost October so I’m perfectly okay with starting the Halloween series. Because it is the best holiday of the year. I was doing a...

Introducing the new series of ten questions with a pro. Every other month, I’m interviewing a “pro” to find out what they do, how they do...

I’m not sure if I’ve been sucked into some algorithm or if there really have been more news stories popping up on pests in food...

When I’m researching an article, I wind up having around three dozen tabs* open on my browser and I’m going back and forth between lots...

One of the big parts of my job is to keep up with current research, find out what it means on the field level, and share with my clients...

I’m on semi-holiday right now. Working is a whole lot better when you can be sitting, watching the ocean, sipping your tea, and eating a...

I was doing some training last week and we were talking about the risk of rodents. I brought up the Family Dollar saga that hit the news...

If you followed along on social media for my 12 days of Christmas – Pest Control Edition, this is the expanded version with tons of...

Yeah, I know I’m going to get some hate for this. So before we get into this let me say that I don’t completely hate the holidays. There...

I usually don’t get called until a pest issue is fairly bad. It’s been going on for months, (if not years), it has not been getting any...

I had to run a load of laundry yesterday. I hadn’t done laundry since before I left on vacation so I had all my dirty clothes still in my...

I’m on vacation this week so it’s perfect timing to look back and see what you folks liked. Blog posts – After writing these weekly for...

If you saw my post last week, you know I have been doing this for over two years. (If you haven’t, why not?!?!) You would think after...

We talk a lot about sanitation when it comes to pest control. It is incredibly important to work on sanitation issues because pests (like...

I remember going out to Kansas for graduate school, the first time I had even been in that part of the country. It was the beginning of...

True story: when I was little, I wanted to be a ballet dancing muppet astronaut. Ballet lasted about six months, I still like the...

Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. Forget six degrees, I can...