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I Come to Suck Your Blood! (AKA: Scary stories)
Since Halloween is right around the corner, it’s time for scary bloodsuckers. Nope, not going to do mosquitoes (yet)! There are just so...
Chelle Hartzer
Oct 1, 20243 min read
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A Special Kind of Love (AKA: Pest passion)
Personally, I’m not a fan of Valentine's Day. Since it is tomorrow, I will put my own romantic spin on it. A pest control spin! Who...
Chelle Hartzer
Feb 13, 20242 min read
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Predicting the future (AKA: Pudge controls the weather)
At the beginning of every year, it seems I get a lot of questions on what’s going to be “the thing” this year for pest control. It’s...
Chelle Hartzer
Jan 3, 20232 min read
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How Many Weeks!? (AKA: What do I write about this week?)
I looked today and this is my 100th blog post. I can hardly believe I have been writing every week for 100 weeks and that means in four...
Chelle Hartzer
May 10, 20224 min read
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Bring Out Your Dead (AKA: Obsessing on diseases)
Last week I started writing an article for a trade journal on small flies in food processing and wound up talking about all the food...
Chelle Hartzer
Mar 8, 20223 min read
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In Person Conferences! (AKA: Scary but good)
Charles Darwin once wrote to his friend: I am dying by inches, from not having anybody to talk to about insects. Over the last week, I...
Chelle Hartzer
Nov 9, 20212 min read
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (AKA: Sweater weather)
It’s October and that means it’s my favorite season of the year: spider season! Living in Georgia (USA), we are under siege from the...
Chelle Hartzer
Oct 5, 20212 min read
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Sucking the Life Out of Me (AKA: I don't feel well)
I got my second dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday, so I’m sort of feeling like the crud on the bottom of the trash can that flies...
Chelle Hartzer
Jun 1, 20213 min read
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Ticks suck! (AKA: Get a taste of these hosts!)
I seem to be doing quite a bit of tick work lately and there is some great research on ticks. We need research to help determine the most...
Chelle Hartzer
May 4, 20213 min read
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Bloodsucking Vampires (AKA: Petrifying parasites)
Since Halloween is right around the corner, it’s time for part two of the bloodsuckers edition. Nope, still not going to do mosquitoes...
Chelle Hartzer
Oct 27, 20203 min read
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