Aardvark Green Pest Control Earns Green Shield Certification

ASTON, Pa. —  Aardvark Green Pest Control Services, a service offered by Aardvark Pest Control Services, Inc., has earned Green Shield Certification from the IPM Institute of North America.

 

To earn Green Shield Certification for its service, Aardvark went through a rigorous evaluation at their headquarters in Aston.   The audit was conducted by the independent nonprofit IPM Institute of North America and held Aardvark's business practices, pest management techniques in the field and pesticide product selection against Green Shield Certified's publicly available evaluation standards. 

 

Green pest control is based on Integrated Pest Management (IPM), a preventative, proactive approach to solving pest problems with effective long-term strategies. Pests need food, water and shelter to survive, and IPM seeks to break that triangle to remove supporting conditions. Green pest management services such as Aardvark's use close inspection to identify the sources of pest problems and eliminate them. 

 

Aardvark began in Pennsylvania in 1995 and serves residential and commercial customers, including school districts, healthcare facilities and food manufacturing facilities that are third-party audited. "In all of these environments, rodent control cannot be done properly without IPM - it's effectively mandated," says Dave Stouber, co-founder of Aardvark along with Charles Kauffman. "You won't solve a rodent problem if you don't limit their access to food, water and harborage. 

 

"As a company, we believe it's most important to eliminate conditions that lead to pest problems, using non-chemical methods first," says Stouber. "Our customers deserve a higher standard of service that solves pest problems without unnecessary use of pesticides. " Aardvark also uses IPM extensively in their bed bug and webbing moth control programs, and they are the only company in the Philadelphia area that uses a dedicated on-site heat chamber to deal with hard-to-treat items. The on-site heat chamber allows Aardvark to increase holding times for dense items such as bags of clothes.