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Home Buyer Beware: Performing Inspections for These Three Most Common...
The majority of first-time home buyers take their time to carefully inspect the physical condition of the property they’re planning to acquire. They look for defects or malfunctions in the...
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Don’t Let Rodents Drive You Out of Business
Rodent control is often an unsettling subject – no one feels comfortable in the presence of unwelcome pests. In the case of restaurants and food processing businesses, however, the problem of rodent...
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5 Control Methods for Pests in Museums, Libraries, and Archives
The only thing worse than mice or cockroaches feeding on breadcrumbs in your kitchen is finding them munching on invaluable paintings and artifacts in your museum or library. Insect pests are...
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Online Reports of Bed Bugs Bring Down Hotel Room Rates
Hotel and resort managers have all the reason to think of ‘bed bugs’ as the dirtiest words in their industry. The problem isn’t so much the bugs themselves, but how travelers react to online...
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Fall Nuisance: Are Cluster Flies Seeking Shelter in Your Home?
Most Canadians are pretty used to swatting flies in the kitchen all throughout summer.Click To Tweet Come fall, however, and they may be taken by surprise by an equally pesky, yet mostly...
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Summer May Be Over, but Tick Danger Is Not
If there’s one thing your dog loves more than rolling in the tall grass in the summer, it’s playing in the giant piles of leaves that fill up your back yard in the fall, and on neither occasion is...
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5 Strategies for Dealing with Pests in the Office
Maybe the trail of ants munching on your lunch leftovers or the co-worker complaining about itchy bites is not that big of deal to you. Even if we spend much of our waking days at work, the...
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Lingering in Your House: Pests and Odors in Crawlspaces
Did you ever wonder how pests like rodents, termites, spiders, ants, and biting insects manage to set up residence in your house before your very eyes? Some of them get inside the same way you do –...
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Underestimating Fly Threats Can Damage Your Business Reputation
The majority of people eating in a restaurant would go back to eating their meal after a fly touched and contaminated it, but almost no one would touch their food after seeing a cockroach crawling...
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Greenleaf Releases Continuing Education Course on Integrated Pest Management...
Because continuing education and training for both pest management professionals and building managers is essential to protecting against the ever-increasing pest pressures in all building...
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Should You Rely on Your Cat to Catch Mice in Your Home?
Throughout time, cats have been taken into homes, as well as barns and even retail stores, for their hunting deftness, and specifically for their mouse-killing abilities. (After all, the cat vs....
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Most Commercial Ultrasonic Pest Repellers, Useless against Home Invasions
Wouldn’t it be great if all you had to do to get rid of household pests was plug in a $10 device and wait? No need for spraying toxic pesticides or setting up poison traps to drive nuisance animal...
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Fact of Fiction? 5 DIY Pest Control Myths
DIY pest control methods have probably been around as long as pests themselves. Thousands of years ago, Egyptians used to smear the fat of a cat on grain sacks to protect against rodents or spread...
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NPMA Announces Rodent Awareness Week: Pest-Proof Your Home to Avoid...
While the recent drop in temperatures means seeing less of the pesky bugs that have bothered Canadians all throughout summer, it means the opposite for one of the most troublesome household pests –...
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Toronto Sees Increase in Raccoons Infected with Canine Distemper Virus
While understandably reluctant, many big-city Canadians have become accustomed to sharing their environment with raccoons and skunks, but dog owners have additional reason to be concerned this fall....
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New Study Shows How Fast (and Far) Bed Bugs Infest Apartment Buildings
The only thing worse than bringing bed bugs into your home after a vacation is to have them come crawling over from your neighbor’s house. If you happen to live in a multi-unit housing complex, your...
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Can Termites Eat Their Way Through Your Concrete Foundation?
When termites enter a home, it may seem like they’re getting in everywhere, including through the house’s foundation. This has led many homeowners to believe that the hordes of tiny, wriggling...
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Get Pests Out of Your Chimney in Time for Santa’s Arrival
Wood-burning fireplaces are an excellent way to escape the blustery weather – after all, few things are more enticing than snuggling up with a cup of hot cocoa in front of a roaring log fire – but...
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Pests on Public Transportation
How often would you take the bus or train if you knew that the chance of sharing your seat with bed bugs, cockroaches, or fleas was pretty high? An older study of London’s public transport found...
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Seasonal Pest Control & Prevention Tips
It is that time of the year when pest control becomes increasingly important. Insects and vermin seek out the warm humidity of our homes, bringing along with them a variety of problems, ranging from...
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