Newsletter
Saturday, June 2nd, 2018
There has been a lot going on at JAK this month! We have a new sink (hooray for running water IN the lab!), new business card designs to match out web site logo, a new category 10 (research and demonstration) pesticide applicator’s license, four new interns, new friends, new equipment, new clients and new PPE! […]
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Friday, May 11th, 2018
Fire Ants April showers bring May flowers, and fluffy fire ant mounds. Knoxville, Tennessee is located in northern range of the red imported fire ant. Despite the wide temperature fluctuations in Knoxville, highs this month ranged from 40s to 80s, fire ants are popping up everywhere now. Kristen has traded her search image for rotten logs […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
Kristen and I pride ourselves in motivating the pest control industry to do a better job, one technician at a time. Last month, Kristen spoke for two hours in Reno, NV about the forensics of cockroach control and Integrated Pest Management and I spoke about bees, wasps and honey bee colony collapse in Alberta, Canada. […]
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Thursday, March 29th, 2018
Kristen and I had another great month! In the last few weeks, we went to Nebraska and Delaware to educate really sharp, dedicated, pest management professionals. In Nebraska, we discussed 25b pesticides, the IPM of water and “things that make you itch.” The PMPs in Delaware learned a lot about wood destroying beetles and borates. […]
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
February is always a busy month for the pest control industry. Not because they have a lot of ‘bugs’ to kill, but because this is when they are getting their continuing education credits. Last week, while in Colorado, Kristen and I spoke for 3 hours about lice, ticks, mosquitoes, kissing bugs, termites, fungi (decay/rot and […]
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