About Mark Sheperdigian

Knowing the basics of German cockroach behavior can drastically improve pest management professional's cockroach control efforts...

Can you see the breeding site of the vinegar fly (Drosophila spp.), aka the small fruit fly, in Fig. 1? Maybe not, but you know where it has to be.......

  Human behavior: Bed bugs are counting on it When people don’t know any better, they’ll try the easy answer first. The solution to bed bug ignorance is education —......

The green, green grass of home. Sometimes turf pests become household pests. European crane flies have begun to colonize North American turf. Most homeowners love their lawns. They spend an......

Are you able to perform an invasive procedure? ⦁ Invasive species may start off making headlines, but often level off in a few years. ⦁ The brown marmorated stink bug......

Should I stay or should I go? ⦁ Female bed bugs have shorter lives because of frequent mating. ⦁ Bed bug dispersion may have more to do with population density......

What we have here is a failure to eradicate. ⦁ Live bugs found after a heat treatment survived the treatment or were reintroduced. ⦁ Making sure the occupants are prepared,......

Heat treatments provide advantages against heavy, widespread infestations in cluttered environments. Manual pesticide treatments can eliminate contained infestations quickly and economically. It continues to be the subject of many bed......

Mouse droppings are as important to PMPs as they are to mice. If you clean up the droppings now, the droppings you see on your next visit will have more......

When there’s a direct cost to tenants for bed bug control, reporting is delayed. Early detection is the key to controlling bed bug costs in multiple-dwelling communities. By now, we’ve......