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pest management

What’s Buggin Me Now

February 10, 2010

MORE TAXES  – previously untaxed services are now being considered as another way to find money for the state.
Well, you hear it on the news everyday, more taxes, more taxes, more taxes!  Here they go again,  the next attempt for Arizona is to raise taxes on just about everything else.
That’s right,  below I copied the [...]

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What is it that Customers Really Want or Expect?

January 26, 2010

This is one question that we at Invader Pest Management spend a lot of time on to ensure that our customers are happy.  This is a really tough issue when you get to the meat of it. 
We do a lot of training with our staff and when they are asked this question, we use to get [...]

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Exterminators Are Not All The Same

January 18, 2010

Moving to the country was a welcome respite from life in a congested suburb — until mice took up residence in our home.
Clearly, we needed a pest control service, but we were concerned about using pesticides — particularly around our children and pets. We didn’t want mice, but we also didn’t want to bomb our [...]

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Along Came a Spider

December 28, 2009

Along came a spider and sat down beside her . . . a popular nursery rhyme, but not so popular as far as pests are concerned.
Spiders are consistently ranked in the top 3 things that are most scary to people and just by looking at this picture you can certainly see why they envoke the fearful thoughts [...]

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Home for the Holiday

December 17, 2009

All through the house, not a creature was stiring, not even a mouse.  Ok, a scorpion was my uninvited guest for the holiday – no it wasn’t stiring thanks to the cat, but it still scared the heck out of my wife when she almost sat on it. 
Hard to believe it’s the middle of December and [...]

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‘Crazy Ants’ – Could They be in Arizona Soon?

December 17, 2009

Swarms of foreign “crazy ants” are spreading through Texas and Florida, raising alarms that the tiny, frenetic bugs will rival the fire ants that have ravaged the South, costing billions of dollars in damages each year.
Although the new pests don’t pack the powerful sting of fire ants, scientists say they can do as much damage, [...]

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Are They Pests or Beneficial Insects?

November 24, 2009

In Arizona around 11,000 species of insects have been identified, a large percent of which (>95%) are either harmless or beneficial to humans. They live in an environment that is delicately balanced ecologically. The term pest is not the name of an ecological niche, but is more of a misunderstanding on the part of the human [...]

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LEED Certified Pest Management

November 12, 2009

Twenty First Century Pest Control is not the same as the old days. I recently attended the 76th Annual NPMA National Pest Management Association Pest World Convention, where we had the largest attendance at a pest control convention to date. The Pest Control industry really understands the importance of coming together as an industry and supporting one [...]

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Pest Control Fogger Likely Killed Infant & Injured 2 Others

November 4, 2009

A pest control spray that produces a fog to kill bugs is likely to blame for the death of a 10-month-old South Carolina boy, and his 2-year-old brother was critically injured by the fumes, authorities say.
Anderson County Deputy Coroner Don McCown said the boys’ mother had been using foggers in their single-wide mobile home in Williamston, in [...]

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Scorpions are Dangerous and Everywhere

September 17, 2009

Maybe even at your house…
In July of 2009 there was a report of scorpions on Southwest Airlines, even a report of a scorpion at a McDonalds in Chandler.  We have even seen a new Anti-Venom reported on in May of 2009, and numerous stories about scorpions on every channel, in every newspaper, and even on the [...]

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