Common Pest-Related Health Threats in Healthcare Facilities
While healthcare facilities are vulnerable to many of the same pests that are common in homes and businesses, they are faced with a unique challenge [...]
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09, 2016
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09, 2016
High and Low Risk Areas of Hotels
Pests are a factor in every commercial building. You will have to deal with them in some aspect, no matter the industry. Nature regularly intersects [...]
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09, 2016
Defending Your Restaurants from Flies
It happens more frequently than we realize; we’re at a restaurant or cafe and a fly endlessly buzzes around our food. At your local [...]
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08, 2016
Maintaining Your Food Processing Facility’s IPM Strategy
Integrated pest management (IPM) isn’t just as easy as setting out a few bait stations and hoping for the best. It’s an entire overhaul of [...]
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06, 2016
Benefits of An IPM Strategy in Your Hospital
Examining the leading cause of death in the past century provides an interesting snapshot of the marked progress in American medical treatment. In the early [...]
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05, 2016
Preparing Your Hotel for Summer Traffic
Americans are taking fewer vacation days than ever before, reaching a 40 year high of unused time according to a study performed by the researchers [...]
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04, 2016
SPRING PEST CONTROL TIPS FOR WISCONSIN PROPERTY MANAGERS
In one of his most celebrated poems, T.S. Eliot opens with the line “April is the cruelest month.” Wisconsinites would have difficulty faulting this statement. Winter’s cold, numbing feeling still lingers beyond the Spring Solstice, while trees commence blooming and greet allergy sufferers with the first of many sneezing attacks.
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04, 2016
The Ants Terrorizing Property Managers
Ants are never taken seriously. An unfortunate and cruel childhood rite of passage is to learn the wonders of energy transfer by using the sun’s [...]
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01, 2016
A Parent & Teacher’s Guide to Lice
Lice are a pest commonly found in school and daycare settings. It is estimated that one in four children will get lice during their childhood. Although lice are a health and hygiene issue, Terminix Wil-Kil Pest Control, a regional pest management company located in Menomonee Falls, has offered tips to educate parents on how to identify, prevent and remove lice.
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12, 2015
An Airbnb Host’s Guide to Bed Bugs
In the age of the “sharing economy,” companies such as Airbnb and HomeAway have drastically changed options regarding travel accommodations. With nearly two million combined [...]