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Psocids: Micro Pest, Macro Challenge
Large populations can cause extensive stored product damage.
Using Ants' 'Cool' Characteristics Against Them
Texas A&M Assistant Professor and Extension Entomologist Robert Puckett discusses ant identification as key to their control, providing the “cool” details and “magic” solutions that a veteran ant researcher can bring to the topic.
Mobilize Your Business with Digital Communication
Going mobile by transforming your business with a menu of different technologies can get your business really cooking.
Conquering the Challenges of Flies
The what and why of fly management in food-processing accounts.
An Update on Today’s Rodent Technologies
New technologies are bringing a greater range of options for dealing with rodents. One of these is electronic rodent monitoring, a digital system of rodent detection, data collection and notification with sensors installed in rodent traps throughout a facility or in specified locations.
New Technologies Disrupt SPPs
Stored product pests are often difficult to control. But new detection, prevention and elimination products are coming onto the market to help.
Six Steps for Communicating Fertility Control in Rats
With fertility control being new and not yet well understood, it can be a challenge for the PMP to communicate the need for and value of this rodent control method.
Expanding the Value of an IPM Program with Contraceptive Baits
The most effective, long-term way to manage rodents is through the implementation of integrated pest management (IPM), and fertility controls can be a valuable component of this program.
Rodent Fertility Control: What It Is and Why It’s Important
Rats reproduce at an extremely rapid rate. Under ideal conditions, two mating rats can be responsible for 15,000 descendants in one year, which makes infestations difficult to eliminate. How can fertility control products help eliminate rats?
What’s The Buzz?
PMPs share what’s happening in the field with digital rodent monitoring. And what’s next for this new technology?