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Chelle Hartzer
Oct 13 min read
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...
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Chelle Hartzer
Feb 132 min read
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...
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Chelle Hartzer
Jan 3, 20232 min read
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...
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Chelle Hartzer
May 10, 20224 min read
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...
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Chelle Hartzer
Mar 8, 20223 min read
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...
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Chelle Hartzer
Nov 9, 20212 min read
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...
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Chelle Hartzer
Oct 5, 20212 min read
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...
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Chelle Hartzer
Jun 1, 20213 min read
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...
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Chelle Hartzer
May 4, 20213 min read
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...
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Chelle Hartzer
Oct 27, 20203 min read
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...
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