Pest Geek Podcast

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Jeff McGovern interviews Mark Weiser of Natures Defense Natural Rodent Control Mark discusses how his 30 years in the outdoors market creating lures for game and wildlife lead him to create repellents for the same animals hunted, targeting specific components of 25b natural products, now creating a rodent repellent to repel Roof rats, Norway rats, and mice. Video of Mark Weiser With Franklin Hernandez of NaturePest Call To Order 866-947-9898 email: sales@natures-defense.com Weiser Group LLC. 514 German Street Harmony, PA 16037 https://natures-defense.com/

Side Jobs and Moonlighting Employees performing side jobs can have many legal ramifications if you do not have strict policies in place to deter, correct and discipline violations you could be facing serious legal consequences. The Legal Aspects of Moonlighting Active ingredients not being logged in. Using Company Property without permission. Violating state law. Moonlighting by pest control identification cardholders (employees) is prohibited by law. https://www.freshfromflorida.com/Consumer-Resources/Consumer-Rights-and-Responsibilities/Pest-Control/Pest-Control-FAQ/How-do-I-know-if-a-pest-control-company-is-licensed

Correcting 404 error page not found When a web page or post is added to your website it is submitted to the search engine, it that url changes after it has been submitted the result of a change is a 404 error page not found. A 404 error page not found can happen if you change. Your permalink settings. Add a categories Change of name on your page. Google Page Console https://www.google.com/webmasters/ To Monitor and Correct 404 error page not found problems on your pest control website, You Should Install on your website. 404 Monitor plugin 301 redirect plugin

Why The Pest Control Industry Should Be Sucking up pest with vacuums like roaches and bedbugs with HEPA vacuums to reduce pest pressures and allergens. Atrix makes two models I like. Green Supreme https://atrix.com/product/omega-supreme-hepa-electronic-vacuum/ ERGO Backpack  

New Bedbug Biological Control Pesticide Aprehend that dramatically reduces the cost of performing bed bug control which is more effective at a lower cost. The Cost of Doing Bed Bug Work Time Prepping Service The Research of Bio Pesticide The researchers in ecological entomology at Penn State, have worked on creating bio pesticides for more than 30 years. Both were part of a multinational team that created Green Muscle and Green Guard a bioinsecticide to control locusts and grasshoppers in Africa and Australia . https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236151786_Green_MuscleTM_a_fungal_biopesticide_for_control_of_grasshoppers_and_locusts_in_Africa These researcher where trying to take their knowledge about formulating fungal biopesticides and apply it to other target pests and they found that the technique works for controlling mosquitos and flies so why not try it on bed beg bugs. How The Bio Pesticide Aprehend works The Bio Pesticide exposes is a formulation containing Beauveria bassiana, a natural and indigenous fungus that causes disease in insects but is harmless to humans. In  The research, they found that exposure to Beauveria bassiana caused the bedbugs to become infected and die within 4 to 7 days. When the bedbugs walk across a sprayed surface they pick up the spores of the fungus, Once the bed bugs are covered in the spores they spread them around by grooming themselves. The spores then germinate and colonize the body within 20 hours of exposure. http://www.aprehend.com/  

Installing GPS & Dash Cams Protecting Your Assets Here is a new segment called Harry Says Motivational, Inspirational Though Provoking Quotes By Harry Dott Bryan. Harry Says You’ll never be GREAT, if you’re… G – Going through the motions R – Resisting change E – Easily distracted A – Avoiding the difficult T – Taking more than giving! All company vehicles are equipped with driver performance monitoring devices which include: * GPS Location Tracking * Speed Monitoring * Driving and Braking * Breadcrumbs * Travel Time * Time At Location * Fuel Usage * Engine Idling Road Haulage Association (RHA) 50% of fleets are now using dash cams with another 30% were actively considering them. Protecting yourself from ‘cash for crash’ scams. Vehicular Voyeurism is a serious problem all video footage must be protected to avoid a potentially damaging video to be uploaded to youtube or plastered on social media. Dash cams are a measure of protection against robbery and vandalism. You can even record a 360-degree perspective. Recording video in public is a right protected by the First Amendment. Recording Audio inside your car is a different matter: In many states, it is illegal to record a conversation without informing all parties that they are being recorded. <a href=”http://www.fleetowner.com/technology/big-question-cameras-driver-or-not”>http://www.fleetowner.com/technology/big-question-cameras-driver-or-not</a>

The 5 P’s People, Process, Policies, Procedure, Product. Without the first four, you will not have a successful brand 5 P’S of Every Successful Business Taylor’s Scientific Management a scientific method of finding the one best way of doing something. People, Process, Policies, Procedure, Product. Without the first four, you will not have a successful brand

The Environmental Fate Study hydrolysis half-life of imidacloprid in water of a pH 7 can range from 33–44 days at and 77ºF. The aqueous photolysis half-life of imidacloprid is less than 3 hours. Environmental Fate Study of Imidacloprid Revealed Half-lives of Imidacloprid ranged from 40 days with no organic fertilizers used to 124 days when cow manure was added. The hydrolysis half-life of imidacloprid in water of a pH 7 can range from 33–44 days at and 77ºF. The aqueous photolysis half-life of imidacloprid is less than 3 hours. The Effect of temperature on decay Imidacloprid degradation Half-lives decreased from 547 to 153 days and to 85 days at incubation temperatures of 41, 59, and 77 °F,. How Does The Active Ingredient Behave In The Whole Environment Volatility (air) Sorption to soil particles (soil) Solubility (water) Effect of temperature on decay Hydrolysis half-life Aqueous photolysis half-life Anaerobic half-life Aerobic half-life Soil photolysis half-life Field dissipation half-life http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/emon/pubs/fatememo/Imidclprdfate2.pdf Imidacloprid Technical Fact Sheet http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/imidacloprid.html Environmental fate and exposure; neonicotinoids and fipronil https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284396/ Evidence for the microbial degradation of imidacloprid in soils of Cameron Highlands https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1658077X14000253

Nature’s Defense Mouse & Rat Repellent Packets work in your problem areas around the home, including attic and crawl spaces, basement, cabinets, garage, sheds, RVs, and winter storage areas. Natures Defense The New Non Rodenticide Rodent Control Our 3.5-oz packet will cover approximately 100 sq. ft. and last and for up to 30 days. To repel rodents you simply place the Nature’s Defense packets in the areas where rodent problems exist, specifically at entry pointy. You must pay very special attention to the feeding and nesting sites. Call Toll Free: 866-947-9898 sales@natures-defense.com Weiser Group LLC. 514 German Street Harmony, PA 16037 https://natures-defense.com/how-to-get-rid-of-rats/

What are many rodent baits and rodenticides to choose from? These are some of the 10 rodent baits and rodenticides currently used in the United States First-generation anticoagulants rodenticides: * warfarin * chlorophacinone * diphacinone Second-generation anticoagulants rodenticides: * brodifacoum * bromadiolone * difenacoum * difethialone Non-anticoagulants rodenticides: * bromethalin * cholecalciferol * zinc phosphide James Rodriguez Technical Director JT Eaton Co., Inc Direct (330) 840-8606 http://www.jteaton.com/professional_productpage.php?id=2_2

YouTube SEO Steps Upload or live stream your video for better YouTuibe SEO. A live-streamed video will rank faster than an uploaded video. Make sure the video is set on public. Optimize the video settings Title your videos with main keyword + the city and phone number Use 7-8 keyword in the tags section Set a custom thumbnail that is optimized for conversion Set a geolocation by putting in an address of where that video was shot or where you want it to rank Set the recorded date as today External optimization Embed video on google my map Make a blog post or page on your website with an embedded my map Make blog post or page on website with the embedded youtube video https://madeyalook.co/youtube-seo/

In order to effectively price educate a customer, you have to take them through a process of discovery and awareness where they can see, hear and feel the quality of your product or service. In order to price educate a customer, you need a beginning a middle and an end. Pricing begins in the marketing phase. What does your marketing look like? Does it look like it was done by your 13-year-old, what does it say about you price cheap, expensive, affordable. Is your branding across the board consistent the first impression people get about your marketing will set the expectation of what it costs? Pricing is prepared in the sales process. Most soloprenours do not have a sales process, they have a sales puzzle a bunch of pieces of things they are doing but they are not clicking together. Sales is all about a process, not tactics and technicians we are all about tactics. An effective sales process walks the potential client through a process of acknowledgment recognizing you exist to deciding to call you. Effective marketers and salespeople know how to help the customer navigate through your system in order to be educated about what it is that you offer and help them decide if your offering is a fit for them. Pricing is presented before you close. If you do not have an effective process that helps your client understand why your pest control service costs what it does then your price will always seem high. Pricing has to be presented when you have satisfied your clients need to understand appreciate what they are buying. Its value has to be higher than what they are paying for it. 3 Things A Customer Needs To Buy Product They have to Want or Need It. Customers will tend to buy what they want versus what they need as needing something is the result of a problem, wanting something is the result of having a longing for it that will not be satisfied until it is owned. They have to be able to afford it. We all at one point wanted something we could not afford, the fact is people want all kinds of things in life they cannot afford a 747 is out of my price range and for that matter, a Leer jet is too a single-engine Cessna is more of what I can afford. It doesn’t matter how good the offer I still can’t afford a jet at 95% off. If the customer cannot afford it no amount sales pressure can get them to own it. Part of our job as salespeople is to determine who can afford our services. They have to be willing to pay for it. Just because you need something and can afford it does not mean you are willing to pay for it, there are plenty of millionaires living in the same homes and driving the same cars as middle and upper-class families.

Essential oils composition is very complex, in order to identify what chemical component actually control the pest with what mode of action requires an individual extraction and testing on a specific pest. Answering which component has what mode of action Insecticidal, Antifeedant, Repellent, Oviposition Deterrent, Growth Regulatory And Antivector Activities on which pest still can not get answered. Chemical Extraction and Composition Analysis of 25b Essential Oils * Chemical Extraction and Composition Analysis Methods * Capillary gas chromatography (GC) * Gas Chromatography * Mass Spectrometry (MS) * Chemometric resolution * Olfactometry and multidimensional gas chromatography * Enantioselective capillary gas chromatography * Stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry * Hydrodistillation * Purity Standards of 25b Essential Oils Adulteration of Essential Oils * Total ion chromatogram essential oils Extraction Methods of 25b Essential Oils * Hydro-distillation * Microwave extraction * CSE Cold solvent extraction * ASE accelerated solvent extraction * SFE supercritical fluid extraction * SPME solid-phase microextraction Chemical Extraction and Composition Analysis Studies of 25b Essential Oils The Extraction and Quantification of Limonene from Citrus Rinds Using GC/MS https://www.perkinelmer.com/PDFs/downloads/APP_Limonene_In_Citrus_Rinds_By_GCMS.pdf Introduction to Gas Chromatography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpPzImDSfqc Essential Oil GC/MS Testing with Dr. P https://youtu.be/LtWq6jkoi9o Application of Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography (GC6GC) to the Qualitative Analysis of Essential Oils This paper investigates the separation of moderately complex samples by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC6GC). The analysis of spearmint (Mentha spicata) and peppermint (Mentha piperita) essential oil components, including acetates, alcohols, furans, ketones, sesquiterpenes, and terpenes, was achieved by one-dimensional gas chromatography with quadrupole mass spectrometry detection (GC/MSD) and GC6GC with flame ionization detection. Peppermint essential oil was found to contain 89 identifiable peaks by GC6GC compared to 30 peaks in the GC/MSD chromatogram. Likewise, 68 peaks were found in the GC6GC chromatogram of spearmint (compared to 28 in GC/MSD). Plots of the first dimension versus second dimension retention times provided a fingerprint of the two essential oils, which revealed 52 similar compounds between the two essential oils as opposed to 18 matches by 1D GC. https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/46578306/Application_of_Comprehensive_TwoDimensio20160617-6908-nar2dx.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1511450647&Signature=a0FdP0KQbxBjZAl1SxqbChmS2oE%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DApplication_of_comprehensive_two-dimensi.pdf

With the DIY Do it Yourself Pest Control Craze, any in the pest control industry is concerned and alarmed about the fact that homeowners can buy the same chemicals we use. The fact is most of the over the counter OTC pesticides are sold at Ready to Use RTU at about the same rates we apply them at, with the same active ingredient we use. The reality of now being able to buy and apply concentrates online and being able to apply them at any rate they choose without pest control training, oversight, licensing and certification is a serious cause for concern and federal and state regulators do not seem to be overly concerned. Tha fact that pesticides today are safer than they were 50 years ago and that most homeowners think that the insecticides we use to control their pests are harsher and more toxic than over the counter products simply isn’t so. All chemical products have EPA Registered labels with the same instructions and limits as we do yet homeowners do not seem to know that they must read labels and understand them before they can apply them. We have to spend years training and take numerous courses voluntary and mandated CEU continuous education units in order to comply with state and federal mandates. This is in addition to all the licenses and insurances we must carry to be allowed to apply a product to your property in accordance with label directions. The cost to start, own and operate a pest control business is very high when compared to other home services such as landscaping, pool service, appliance repairs, fencing, roofing, painting, floor and carpet, carpet cleaning, and yes the do it all handyman. Things you must know just be able to apply a pesticide in non site states where the pest must be present to legally apply a pesticide, positively identify the pest, know which active ingredients will actually control that pest, report the amount of chemical used, the site it was applied to and how often can you reapply it before you legally have to switch to another product, how many times per year can you legally apply it and thus just a few of dozens of insecticide we have to memorize.