Pest Management Articles

Ant pest issues in healthcare and senior living facilities

When ant pests infest any facility, they are bound to cause numerous problems, but when they invade health care and senior living facilities – where lots of food, fluids and unsuspecting patients are waiting – they pose a host of additional, unique challenges.  Read more...   

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Bird watching: Steps to keep birds out of facilities

When you’re enjoying the colors of the trees in autumn, birds probably help to make your nature walk more enjoyable. Yet, like other wildlife, birds can become pests when they find their way into food manufacturing plants and other facilities where they can cause damage, contamination and transmit disease. Read more...

Turn the Welcome Light Off to Unwanted Guests 

As the warm weather of summer blows throughout the entire country, it also brings with it night flying insects that are attracted to a facility’s lights. To ensure your facility isn’t a magnet to swarms of these pests, here are 10 light management tips you can implement around your facility to make your facility less of a nighttime attraction. Read more...   

Tips for Using Pheromone Traps in Winter

When temperatures dip below 50 degrees, it’s time to put on a jacket and evaluate your pheromone trap locations. Read more...

Tips to Prevent Rodents from Making your Facility their Winter Home

With the onset of fall and cooler temperatures, more rodents across the United States
and Canada are ready to move indoors. Since their arrival could damage property, cause electrical fires, contaminate millions of dollars worth of food and spread diseases, Copesan Partners throughout the country and Canada have provided tips on how facilities can survive the fall rodent intrusion. Read more...   

Multicolored Asian Lady Beetles: Lucky Charm or Perennial Nuisance?

Farmers and gardeners may still believe in the superstition that finding a multicolored Asian lady beetle is a sign of good luck, but those who have seen an infestation of these beetles in their facilities are far less enchanted by these “lucky charms.” Read more...   

Steps to Ensure Effective Pest Management and Bio-Security Co-Exist

Pest management is a small part of the greater concerns that food processors, food service, hospitality and healthcare have in regard to bio-security. But by focusing on security-related issues before they choose a pest management service professional, facility managers can take important steps toward protecting security of their facility. Read more...   

ULV Pesticide Applications In Commercial Facilities

Ultra Low Volume (ULV) pesticide applications have long been used in commercial facilities, especially in the food industry, to quickly eliminate visible pests. However, the practice of routine and “scheduled” ULV applications  has come into question recently, especially as part of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program. Read more...

The Importance of Good Drainage

With all the rain that many areas of the country have been experiencing, it’ s important to have good drainage to help prevent springtails, psocids and other pests from invading industrial, commercial and residential structures. Read more...