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DoS & Don’tS: rePugnant FLieS By Dr. Stuart Mitchell

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l Do's & Don'ts: Repugnant Fliesl EDGEucation for Life!

l Do’s & Don’ts: Spiders!l Do’s & Don’ts: Rats Stink!

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“The House fly gut may provide a favorable environment for the evolution and emergence of pathogenic bacterial strains through acquisition of antibiotic resistance genes or virulence factors.” Journal of Medical Entomology 43 (2) 288-295 (2006)

In one study, urban sources of flies generated by various media were determined by percentage.

• Meat 1.7%• Human excrement 1.9%• Dead animals 2.3%• Coffee grounds 2.7%• Grass 3.3%• Fowl excrement 6.5%• Scattered garbage 9.2%• Dog excrement 15.1%• Garbage containers 44.6%• Other 12.7%

Flying insect control is not just dealing with a “nuisance.” There is a public health significance associated with “filth flies.” These flying infections move pathogens from filth to food. They vector diseases such as dysentery, gastroenteritis, tuberculosis, and intestinal-worms. Fly spotting is produced when feeding and defecating. Producing16 to 31 spots in 24 hours, filth flies can harbor up to 6 million external bacteria and 25 million internal bacteria.

Effective filth fly control is supplemented within urban areas through the practice of cultural and biological controls per the integrated pest management template.

• Do interview your client to gather detailed information regarding filth fly pressures and possible sources (take notes).

• Don’t overlook any detail provided in Q&A discovery with your client, as the smallest detail will be key to a successful intervention.

• Do determine the fly species.• Don’t forget to effectively screen windows

and doors.• Do use tight-fitting lids on garbage cans

(with regular cleaning).• Don’t forget to compost using a hot

aerobic method. *• Do use outdoor visual and odorant

attraction traps treated with insecticide bait (follow all label directions).

• Don’t forget to use proper manure management practices.

• Do use a microbial-based product to degrade organic biomass (vomit, urine, blood, and excrement).

• Don’t forget to use available pupal parasitoids (parasitic Muscidifurax and Spalangia wasps) for biological control.

*A self-heating (calor) aerobic and microbial degrading process can convert organic waste materials into plant nutrients. The process consists of the initial mesophilic phase, next the thermophilic phase, and the cooling or maturation phase.

Knowing the Dos and Don’ts allows expert interventions that reduce effectively the potential for filth flies. Expert interventions deliver both satisfied customers and recurring revenue!

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Dos & Don’ts: SPiDerS! By Dr. Stuart Mitchell

EDGEucation For LiFe! By Dr. Stuart Mitchell

Although unpopular, most spiders are cryptic and inert to humans. Most species have chelicerae too small or weak to puncture human skin. Usually, spiders will not attempt to bite unless accidentally trapped or held.

araneomorph spider’s jaws are slung vertically under the front of the carapace (diaxial). the fangs are hinged laterally and bite crossways against each other. this is a more efficient arrangement for seizing and manipulating prey (especially on a web).

• cephalothorax: (fused head-thorax) contains brain, eyes, jaws, stomach, and leg attachments.

• Abdomen: contains guts, heart, reproductive organs, and silk glands.

• eyes only detect light and dark and are located on top of the cephalothorax (most have 8 eyes, but can have 12, 6, 4, 2, or none).

• Jaws are tipped with fangs that can inject venom or digestive secretions (located below the eyes).

• Pedipalps are sensory appendages next to jaws (taste food).• legs are made up of seven segments with 2 or 3 claws at the tip (if a

leg is lost, it will grow back). • male spiders have an enlarged segment on the tip of the pedipalps.• male pedipalps are copulatory organs (transfer sperm to the

female).

• Pedicel or waist connects the cephalothorax and abdomen.• Spinnerets are where spider’s silk is released.

most spider species are beneficial by feeding on harmful insects and mites in and around structures. When possible, unnecessary destruction of spiders should be avoided.

• Do interview your client to gather detailed information regarding spider pressures and possible sources (take notes).

• Don’t overlook any detail provided in q&A discovery with your client, as the smallest detail will be key to a successful intervention.

• Do use sodium vapor (yellow) exterior lighting to reduce night-flying insects that attract spiders.

• Don’t forget mercury vapor (blue) exterior lighting is 112 times more attractive to flying insects.

• Do eliminate woodpiles, trash, rocks, compost piles, old boards, and debris fields along exterior structural areas where spiders harborage (sanitized zones).

• Don’t forget to use high-pressure water to knock down and destroy webs, egg sacs, and spiders.

• Do eliminate moisture and humidity by keeping basements and crawlspaces as dry as possible (ventilation and dehumidification).

• Don’t forget to remove and destroy webs, egg sacs, and spiders with a vacuum cleaner (proper attachments to reach cryptic areas).

Knowing the Dos and Don’ts allows expert interventions that reduce effectively the potential for spiders. expert interventions deliver both satisfied customers and recurring revenue!

At no other time in the pest management industry has there been more opportunity for education! Education anytime, anywhere!

• Print media (books, trade journals, newsletters, brochures, posters, and information pieces)

• e-media (websites, formal and informal online education, webinars, e-books, apps, etc.)

• Access through smart phones, smart pads, computers, hDmi satellite, etc.)

Psychologically dynamic, learning results from integrated inputs.

• Auditory learning

• Visual learning

• Kinesthetic learning (learn through doing)

of the adorations i have for the pest management industry, the greatest is its investment in education. Similarly, i have invested in education for the last 32 years of my life.

having served the industry in several capacities, my favored service is that of educating PmPs. As a result, i now find service through the rich educational environments of both PestWest EDGEucation and Pest Management Professional Magazine.

my career in the pest management industry has allowed perpetual educational opportunity limited only by personal ambition. in the course of a rewarding career, i have never “worked” a single day, rather provisioned a myriad of professional relationships and friendships all the while becoming a biologist and physician.

“All men by nature desire knowledge.” -Aristotle

Life is ephemeral. The choices made set in motion a natural sequence to success or failure. One of the best of choices I have made is perpetual illumination through educational pursuit.

Education is the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction. Just as one requires sustenance of shelter, water, and food, additionally, one needs sustenance of the mind. Such is continual learning through limitless educational opportunity.

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Urban vermin populations are growing rapidly and cryptically. Right under our noses is a stinky and challenging situation that can provide unique opportunities for pest management professionals (PMPs).

urban sewers and storm drain systems are a perfect infrastructural environment for rats. these systems perpetuate a rat population monoculture through consistent temperature, abundant food, and a lack of predators.

Sanitary sewers are an underground transport system for sewage from residential and commercial structures to facilitate treatment and/or disposal. Sanitary sewers servicing industrial areas transport industrial wastewater.

Sanitary sewers are operated separately and independently of storm drain systems that transport rainfall runoff and other water from city surface streets. combined sewers transport both sewage and storm water.

Sewers may become potent reservoirs for rats. Sewer system defects or delayed maintenance issues support both surface and subsurface rat populations.

the World health organization publication, “Public health Significance of urban Pests” (2008) states, “commensal or synanthropic rodents present a risk to public health being associated with a number of zoonoses. in addition, the rat’s strong instinct to burrow and gnaw damages the sewer and drainage infrastructure, particularly where defects already exist.”

Knowing the Do’s and Don’ts of a comprehensive sewer-baiting program provides both an essential public heath service and a recurring revenue opportunity. A successful program mandates comprehensive training, a detailed SoP, ongoing monitoring, appropriate equipment, and PPe.

• Do remember that sewers are hazardous confined spaces and all oShA training and safe work practices are required (including receiving required vaccinations against hepatitis, Polio, tetanus, and ongoing medical supervision).

• Don’t forget when using rodenticides always read and understand the product label directions.

• Do check for the presence of flammable and/or toxic gases with a gas meter.

• Don’t forget that sewer baiting is undertaken only when the manhole has been properly ventilated and gas meter readings record a clear atmosphere.

• Do remember that rodenticides must be placed per product label directions onto chamber benching (using appropriate baiting equipment), or where benching is absent, suspended by wires secured to a ladder, close to the access.

• Don’t forget the quantity of bait placed, specific location of the baited chamber, and all required regulatory information must be accurately recorded.

• Do remember that accidental rodenticide spillage must be immediately recovered, removed, and reused or disposed of per the product label directions.

• Don’t forget that while conducting sewer baiting the service vehicle rodenticide storage compartments must be securely locked.

Knowing the Dos and Don’ts allows expert interventions that effectively reduce rat populations within sewer systems. expert interventions deliver both satisfied customers and recurring revenue!

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