STRADDLE STONES By Hugh Radford, NPTA Vice Chair Britain’s Early Defence Against Rats in Grain and Hay Walk through almost any older rural village in southern England or even in garden center ornament departments and you may spot them. Stone columns with wide, rounded tops, standing in neat rows, sometimes supporting a small timber building,…
From the Pest Control Library The Silent Spring Legacy Part 1: Silent Spring If you work in pest management and you have never read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, you have almost certainly felt its impact anyway. Published in 1962, it is probably the most influential book ever written about pesticides. Not a technical manual.…
HACCP assures food safety in pest control HACCP risk assessment is an essential part of any food business to assure produce is safe and free from contamination. All food businesses, particularly those supplying to the big chain supermarkets, should have HACCP (Hazzard Analysis Critical Control Point) based food safety programmes implemented, as a means of…
Know your foe: The Indian Meal Moth Mark Wenman, NPTA Technical Manager The Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella) is a pyraloid moth of the family Pyralidae. In some countries they are known as the pantry moth. They are a common grain-feeding pest found around the world, consuming cereals, fruits, seeds and similar products. The adult…
A unicorn in Uniform Hannah Godfrey, Godfrey Pest Management Yep! You read that right! When I googled the stats for women like me, (a 43 year old, wife and mother owning their own business and being a Pest Control Technician), Gemini told me I was a ‘Statistical Unicorn’ as I made up 0.5% of the…