Last week was“Bed Bug Awareness Week”. Are you excited, did you celebrate?!?! Since the re-emergence of bed bugs in the US in the early...

Thursday is World Pest Day. This was apparently initiated in 2017 and it “aims to raise awareness about the critical role of pest...

Yesterday was World Bee Day. Despite what many people think, the urban pest control sector is not out to kill all the beneficial insects...

I was helping a friend with a cleanup last weekend. We had done quite a bit on the first day including cleaning up some wine. Second day...

I have a small compost bucket I keep under my kitchen counter until it is ready to be taken out. That means it sits there for maybe two...

I can’t believe this is still coming up. Well, no…I can believe it. I looked back through my old posts and I posted about this in 2022...

While I talk about this topic quite a bit within posts, I don’t often focus on it. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes you can see...

Actual conversation I had with a client the other day: Client: I don’t understand why we still have this problem. Me: How long has it...

If you’ve been following along, we posted for the last two weeks on the 12 days of Christmas pest control style. Here’s how it went this...

You know with a headline like this I absolutely have to find out what’s going on: And since it is 100% effective, pest control companies...

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....

I was just asked to write an article on “natural” pest control. I almost didn’t. It’s like talking about “safe” pesticides or “harmless”...

It’s National Moth Week! Moths are definitely the underrated stepchild of the Lepidoptera order. The butterflies and skippers get all the...

This episode marks the 158th weekly blog post. That’s officially three years and two weeks of weekly ranting writing about all things...

Normally something like this would hit my newsfeed and I would glance at it and move on. It caught my eye this time. I typically don’t...

I’m taking my usual morning walk today and since it’s getting lighter out, I can see a bit more. Around my neighborhood, I saw not one,...

I’ve been getting a lot of alerts about bed bugs on my news feed, probably because Orkin is doing their annual bed bug push. On top of...

I don’t think I have ever written about something like this. It is a bit niche, and many people never run across this type of account....

Grab your favorite snacks, find your comfortable chair, and settle in for story time! I was at a conference a couple weeks ago. I really...

Actual conversation from yesterday: “Chelle, get over here right now!” “What?” “There’s a bug!” “Yeah…” “Well do something about it!” You...