Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in a Hospital Environment
Picture your hospital at its busiest: medical teams racing gurneys through the hallways, helicopters airlifting patients, ambulances shuttling individuals to and from your facility and [...]
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11, 2015
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06, 2015
Pests And Your Food
What does your home look like to bugs and rodents? Is it a foreboding place, devoid of even a morsel of food? Or, is it a buffet restaurant filled with every delicacy imaginable? In order to determine this, you have to get down to their level and see the world from their perspective. It might actually startle you how many food sources are littered throughout your home.
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05, 2015
Pest Birds Damage Your Facility And Your Image
Have you ever been walking up the sidewalk to a business establishment only to see that unsightly view of bird droppings covering the area all around the building? You automatically look up—just in time to see the fly by shooting of a bird bomb splat right in front of you. Suddenly, your desire to do business has waned as you carefully step around the bird droppings in your retreat.
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03, 2015
The Importance Of Natural Pest Management In Hospitals
If the title of this article caught your eye, there is a good chance you are a doctor, or a health care professional. I'm sure you are aware that bacterial illness and disease must be suppressed continually. Instruments must be sterilized, hands must be washed, and rooms must be kept clean to protect patients with weakened immune systems, and prevent disease from spreading. This is not place for rats, mice, cockroaches, flies, and other illness-spreading pests. It is also not the place for pesticides.
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01, 2015
Where Did All These Flies Come From?
You might wonder sometimes where all the flies keep coming from. They can be quite mysterious. In ancient times people believed that flies spontaneously generated out of dead or rotting meat. But the truth is simple enough for a child to understand. You see, when mommy and daddy fly love each other very much--um, you get the point.
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11, 2014
Exclusion Tips To Seal Out Overwintering Pests
Exclusion. Have you heard the term? Do you know what it means? Well, the golden age of Pesticides is behind us. Pest companies no longer come to your house and douse everything--including your bed--in a heavy coating of pesticides. Though this method was highly effective at killing bugs, it did a pretty good job of making humans sick too. In this modern day, pest control companies rely on a worldwide database of pest information to "exclude" pests from your home. Think of exclusion as a sort of cold shoulder. If we were talking about a human pest, exclusion would come in the form of, perhaps, not answering the door, not returning a phone call, or putting a lock on the door.
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06, 2014
Fox 6 Now: Ways You Can Stop Being a Mosquito’s Buffet
Mosquitoes are back and they are hungry! Keep yourself off the menu with these helpful tips!
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09, 2013
Why Flies Are A Dangerous Pest
It’s happened to us all before; we’re sitting inside a restaurant and a fly buzzes over our food. In your local pizza dive, you might expect this and it might seem normal. But should it be? Having flies buzzing around the food that you eat is not safe, whether you are in a commercial diner or in your own kitchen, these insects can pose dangers to your health.
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08, 2013
WQOW Eau Claire: Local University Urges to Check for Bed Bugs
As parents or students we have a back to school check list and for one local university, a case of the bed bugs has it including an inspection on the to-do list.
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07, 2013
The Star: Weather Could Make Mosquitoes Worse
With a slap of a hand against a forearm and some furious itching, mosquito season has officially, and unfortunately, begun in Wisconsin. Large rainfalls and snow melt from earlier in the spring season have allowed many opportunities for mosquitoes to breed and make their presence known with summer still on the cusp of officially starting.