September 10 at 2:00 PM EDT | REGISTER
Presented by Gerry Wegner, BCE, Varment Guard Environmental Services, Columbus, OH  
Get the practical information you need to properly identify common wasps and bees in and around structures. This session taught by expert BCE Gerry Wegner will teach you when to pull out your insecticides or when it's best to leave these busy creatures alone.

Last week a group of fifteen Democratic Senators sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler, asking the EPA to reverse its decision not to ban Chlorpyrifos. The letter outlines concern about children and farm workers and asks that the product be immediately removed from the marketplace.

Last week, NPMA working with the Missouri Pest Management Association sent a letter to the City of Webster Groves, MO and copied the Missouri Attorney General regarding how the City’s Pesticide Application Policy would be preempted—and thus, null, void, and of no effect—if it in any way compelled professional pesticide applicators to provide advance notice of pesticide applications, including, in the words of the Resolution,  a “brief description” of potential “effects” on children, adults, pets, and the environment, and “[b]rief instructions of precautions . . . to lessen or safeguard . . . against these effects.”  Neither federal nor State law imposes any such general notification requirement prior to application of pesticides, whose potential risks are scientifically assessed and mitigated primarily by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under FIFRA. Additionally, AMCA and their affiliates have sent their own letter echoing our industry’s concerns.

 

The NPMA Recruitment & Retention Committee is planning its work for the year and wants to know what members need most.

Share your thoughts here: http://workforce.npmapestworld.org/recruit/tell-us-about-your-hr-needs/

With the release of the newly revised version of the NPMA-33 Wood Destroying Insect Inspection Form this month, NPMA will be deeply discounting all remaining inventory of the previous edition of the NPMA-33 form at a 60% discount. This edition of this form will remain valid until December 31, 2019.

To purchase the previous edition of the NPMA-33 form at a 60% discount, visit NPMA’s BugStore.

 As a membership benefit, NPMA has developed a gallery of 
pest images at My.NPMAPestWorld.org for use by NPMA members.

 

The Aust Group is pleased to announce the acquisition of their client, HomePro Pest Control to Rollins, Inc.

Harvey L. Massey, Chairman and CEO of Massey Services, is proud to announce that the company has once again been recognized by the Orlando Sentinel as a Top Workplace in Central Florida.

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