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Calculating Your Worth In Pest Control

pest |pest| noun a destructive insect or other animal that attacks crops, food, livestock, etc. • informal an annoying person or thing; a nuisance. • (the pest) archaic bubonic plague. ORIGIN late 15th cent. (denoting the bubonic plague): from French peste or Latin pestis ‘plague.’ It’s odd to me that people, pest control people especially, [...]

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If You Had A Pest Control Genie What Would You Wish For

We’ve all watched the scene play out, a ship wrecked man in tattered clothes who comes upon a bottle in the sand. Thinking it’s water perhaps or something else, he picks it up, uncorks it and SHAZAAM! Out pops a genie who is so happy to be released that he or she grants the guy [...]

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Pin Stream Pest Control & Seeing Red

I’ve never been accused of having a bland imagination. No ones ever said my conclusions or correlations were so obvious that they could see them coming from a mile away. I’m not sure if that’s a real good thing or not but one thing I can say, that at least when it comes to pest [...]

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Are You A Mega Company? Then Who Cares About You?

Did you know a church becomes a “mega church” when it gets over 2 to 3 thousand people regularly attending?. According to the government you’re considered a small business if you have 500 employees or less. They even have a number where you can gauge if you’re rich. Earning $250,000.00 or more puts you in [...]

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The Obvious Answer…My Company Sucks

The following is a two actor script for a play that’s been running even longer than the famous and longest running production Cats. Due to a looming actors strike we’ve had to adapt and abbreviate the production but I’m sure you’ll get the flavor of where this is going because unless I miss my guess; [...]

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What’s The Grossest Thing You’ve Ever Seen In Pest Control?

So my son and I were sitting around talking about things I’ve seen in my career. He’s worked with me a for awhile and on any normal day you can be treated to some really wild things. The conversation eventually turned to what was the GROSSEST thing I’ve ever seen and that kind of took [...]

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Yellow Jackets In A Wall

Yellow Jackets can be a real pain, figuratively and literally. They are known for their ability to repeatedly sting you but did you know they also bite? The foragers out and about are usually not a problem unless you begin swatting at them or unsuspectingly take a drink from your soda can that one has [...]

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I always have great Decembers even without the numbers

Don’t know what it is, my believing, dumb luck or the aligning of the stars but I always have my best months in December. While you might think I’m speaking strictly of numbers you’re only partially right. In pest control everything is numbers and you gauge days, months and years against one another and somehow [...]

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Good Bye Mr. Roach (pestcemetery back in 1959)

I wasn’t even born yet in 1959 but roaches were definitely around. It’s interesting how much was known even this long ago about roaches and other pests. Scientists and researchers did an incredible job on laying the foundation for what we call modern extermination today. Of course the roaches haven’t paid any of these smart [...]

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Rafter tag and bird control

I grew up in the good ol state of Iowa and we always lived in very old farm houses with barns, corn cribs and abandoned tractors in the yard. Now we weren’t farmers per se, we just rented the home but we always had a horse or two around and other assorted critters. Since the [...]

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Having Your ‘Green Cake’ And Eating It Too

I’m amazed at the amount of hypocrisy in the green movement, specifically when it comes to pest control and pest control products. It seems that any pest control operator better be using organic, natural or environmentally safe products out there or they are demonized as being evil and irresponsible purveyors of death. Oh it doesn’t [...]

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Mom & Pop pest control & Acme Meat Packing

What do “Mom and Pop” pest control companies and the Green Bay Packers have in common? If you said they were both owned by regular folks and not some huge corporate conglomerate, you’d be right. There are other similarities as well and for today’s venture into all things pest control I thought I’d list just [...]

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To PMP or not to PMP is it even a question?

Ask just about any homeowner, “What is a PMP?” and I’m sure you’ll get some raised eyebrows, stammering guesses and end up with the same final answer almost every time. “I dunno.” If you search “pmp” on the net you get 10 straight pages of Project Management Professional web sites and the occasional Portable Media [...]

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If pest control was a super hero which one would it be?

Ok, so I’m a little whack but I just spent the weekend testing for the A.C.E. program and I’ve got insect facts like nodes,spiracles, kingdoms, genus and exoskeletons clogging up my brain so allow me a little creative license here. I mean think of it, pest control is actually in the big 3 list for [...]

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The picture perfect day and your comments

I thought I’d try something different and see how it went. Each day is an adventure for me and that is the main reason I love my job. The following is a pictorial view of my day and rather than my comments on the situation I’d like to hear yours. I may add the situation [...]

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