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Check out the videos here: AMHQ Weekend on The Weather Channel (7/23/17, 8:20 a.m.) Weekend Recharge on The Weather Channel (7/23/17, 10:20 a.m.) |
Professional Women in Pest Management (PWIPM) grants can advance a career in the pest management industry or help to reduce the costs related to education. Grants are a minimum of $1,000 and include free registration and additional $1000 towards travel expenses to attend the National Pest Management Association’s PestWorld. Successful recipient(s) are notified by September 1 each year. The deadline is August 1st – apply today! For more information, click here. Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/npma-ePestWorld/articles/index.asp?aid=453113&issueID=55544 to view the full article online.
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The Entomological Society of America announced new ACEs and BCEs – the following earned their certification since Mid-June:
ACE:
• Mr. Lorenzo Jackson Llamas, ACE, (Western Exterminators), Anaheim, CA USA. Certified on 6/20/2017
• Mr. Kenneth O. Howard, ACE, (Allgood Pest Solutions), Dublin, GA USA. Certified on 5/22/2017
• Mr. Steven Matthew Swope, ACE, (Presto X), Springfield, MO USA. Certified on 5/21/2017
BCE:
• Dr. Jamel Sandidge, BCE, (Rockwell Labs LTD), Mc Louth, KS USA. Certified on 6/27/2017
• Mr. David Lawrence Bradt III, BCE, (Oklahoma State University), Stillwater, OK USA. Certified on 6/18/2017
Brown Widow Egg Sac
As a membership benefit, NPMA has developed a gallery of
pest images at My.NPMAPestWorld.org for use by NPMA members.
NPMA offers an inexpensive marketing vehicle for you to market your company and your services. Pest Gazette is a quarterly promotional newsletter that can be personalized to include your company information, highlight seasonal pests and help educate your customers about what they can do the help you manage pest problems. Learn more here. Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/npma-ePestWorld/articles/index.asp?aid=453157&issueID=55544 to view the full article online.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017
2:00 – 3:00pm EDT
REGISTER TODAY
Overwintering pests are an unrelated group of insects that enter homes in the fall to seek shelter against the cold. This webinar will discuss the biology of overwintering pests, including the brown marmorated stink bug, and describe research sponsored by the Pest Management Foundation that asked: how effective is exclusion at keeping overwintering pests out of structures?
In case you missed it – download our recent webinar on tick management!
NPMA member Matt Eisenberg of Univar in Plainview, N.Y. recently suffered a stroke. Matt has been in the industry for many years, and is liked by his customers, always trying to help them in any way he can.
A GoFundMe page has been set up for Matt – if you’d like to help, click here.
USA Today
More than 44,000 people took their own lives in 2015. The paper's author, New Jersey-based psychiatrist Dr. Robert Bransfield, estimates that as many as 1,200 of those suicides — as well as more than 14,000 incidents of self-harm and 31,000 suicide attempts — may be attributed to Lyme and associated diseases each year.
Visit https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/07/19/how-lyme-disease-might-triggering-hundreds-suicides/493934001/ to view the full article online.
CBS Miami
In the last week, there have been six additional cases of the Zika virus confirmed in the state, bringing the total to 113 in 2017. Of the tally, 85 cases were classified as “travel related” — meaning people were infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus elsewhere and brought it into the state.
Visit http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/07/25/zika-cases-rise/ to view the full article online.
Fox 21 News
Colorado is seeing an infestation of bed bugs, and one local exterminator says it’s due to the state’s growing population and Colorado’s popularity as a tourist destination.
Visit http://fox21news.com/2017/07/19/denver-exterminators-responding-to-increase-in-bed-bug-calls/ to view the full article online.
CBS Chicago
After halting the use of dry ice to kill rats last winter, city officials said Chicago has been given the green light to start up again, and the Department of Streets and Sanitation also has started trying a new non-lethal method to fight Chicago’s rodent problem.
Visit http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/07/25/rodent-control-rats-dry-ice-birth-control/ to view the full article online.
KHQ
If you think you’ve seen more spiders this summer, you’re not wrong. They’re a lot more active this year, according to pest control experts.
Visit http://www.khq.com/story/35925894/pest-control-experts-say-spiders-are-more-active-this-year to view the full article online.
