Sandra Sleezer

Jun 12, 2024 | mypmp.net | Andrew Fisher |Cisse Spragins |Sandra Sleezer |Dan Gordon

NeogenFly control usually occurs in commercial accounts like restaurants, but many PMPs are facing new challenges in specialty markets, such as animal production and hobby farms. On cattle farms, there’s a heightened risk of fly presence thanks to the large size of cows and their waste, providing ideal conditions for flies to flourish. For a technician, managing such environments can be challenging without prior experience. Here are five focal points for cattle farm inspection and treatment:1.

Jun 10, 2024 | mypmp.net | Cisse Spragins |Sandra Sleezer |Sylvia Kenmuir |Dan Gordon

Rockwell LabsSmall flies — fruit flies, phorid flies and drain flies — are a sanitation pest that can be challenging to control, given their ability to multiply quickly when their food sources and breeding sites are available. A successful integrated pest management (IPM) program will include sanitation measures that address organic build-up and chronic moisture problems.

Mar 13, 2024 | mypmp.net | Sandra Sleezer |Brittany Campbell |Pete Schopen |Heather Gooch

Editor’s Note: Questions for this month’s test were contributed by Foster Brusca; Doug Foster; Jerry Schappert, ACE; Pete Schopen and Mark VanderWerp, BCE. Want to know how you did? The answers are listed at the bottom of the page. Turning to truckers to help stop the spreadRed (Solenopsis invicta) and black (S. richteri) imported fire ants are native to South America. In the 1930s, they were inadvertently introduced into the U.S. at the port of Mobile, Ala.

Mar 13, 2024 | mypmp.net | Brittany Campbell |Pete Schopen |Sandra Sleezer

When treating cockroaches, the simple addition of an insect growth regulator (IGR) can make a big difference. IGRs break the life cycle of the cockroach. If resistance to adulticides is already in the population, IGRs will add another mode of action to help combat that resistance. Adult cockroaches that enter a location treated with an IGR can become sterilized, and juveniles that encounter an IGR may not be able to develop properly. Every infestation starts small, then grows into a serious problem.