Robert's Rants
Robert's Rants
A personal blog on the Canadian pesticide industry and other pet peeves and interests

August: Canadian National Pest Management Safety Awareness Month

Since when???? Since I just declared it!!! Hey, it’s my blog! But seriously, this is a good time….mid-season…to take stock of your safety and application equipment, truck inventory, and record keeping. PPE; You have probably been using your respirator for the past few months, but remember from your training the cartridges are only good for […]

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Products, products, products…or why we need a bigger warehouse!

So as promised in my last post, let’s take a quick look see at one product type or category just to see how diverse this little mouse catching job is. There are 4 main ways to control mice, besides ensuring they don’t enter the property.  Buy a cat.  Catch them on glue boards.  Use rodenticides. […]

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European Fire Ants spread in GTA

Brad from Delta Pest in the GTA has been dealing with a few difficult invasions of ants that are very aggressive and spreading in a couple of different suburbs around the city.  In some areas, homeowners can’t even use the backyard, bbq or pool areas due to bites/stings from these nasty critters. I was lucky […]

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Call backs this Summer – Pyrethroid Performance

I am starting to get a few calls and questions on call backs and retreats needing to be done in some areas around the country.  Seems to be more spider related than anything. There are three separate issues that need to be addressed with this; The limited chemistry we have available, The inherent physical properties of […]

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