Lyme disease is currently the world’s fastest growing vector-borne infection spread by ticks. Help increase awareness and encourage preventative measures to protect your customers and their families. Ask your Residex representative how to Get Started in Tick Management.
Residex has developed a one page public awareness piece to help your customers better understand Lyme disease and the importance of reducing exposure to ticks
- What causes Lyme disease and how would I contract it?
- How will I know if a tick bite transmitted Lyme disease?
- What happens if I get Lyme disease?
- What is the most effective preventative control method available today?
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Florida Reporting Termite Swarms are up! Here is a great article to share with your customers:
Weather’s warming, and termites are swarming
April 12, 2011|By Linda Florea, Orlando Sentinel
For three years, Tarre Beach had lived in her 6-year-old Ocoee home with confidence in the termite baits the original owner had placed around the house.
Only she didn’t realize the “traps” needed to be checked at least once a year — until she returned home some weeks ago and found insects in the living room.
“I moved the couch and there were a ton of bugs — I didn’t know they were termites,” she recalled recently. “I sprayed along the window sill and outside — they were dying, and I cleaned them up, but more came out. They filled up about a 6-foot windowsill completely.”
Ideal conditions have triggered an unusual number of early-season termite “swarms” this year in Central Florida after several years of relative peace. Even during an average year, Florida’s climate is an ideal incubator for termites, which is why it’s one of the top U.S. states for infestations.
Roberto Pereira, an associate research scientist at the University of Florida’s Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences, said this year’s quick post-winter warm-up and heavy March rains are to blame for the surge in swarms. Among those hit: the institute’s building in Gainesville.
“Swarms have to have the right temperature at the right time,” Pereira said. “This year we did have the right combination.”
“In the last few years, there have been a lot less in terms of swarms than normal,” he added, in part because of drought conditions at the time. Pest-control operators complained about the dearth of business during the February and March swarming season for “native” subterranean termites, one of three types active in Central Florida.
But this year, swarm reports for native subterraneans were up about 50 percent, said Brian Keane, branch manager for the Terminex International Co. branch in Orlando.
“This is a real problem, and I think a lot of people take it lightly,” Keane said. “People tend to see a swarm in their house and don’t see the damage and kill the swarm and think they’re safe. Meanwhile, [termite] workers are behind the drywall tearing down their house. They don’t sleep, and they eat around the clock.”
Termite Monitoring could be the key to your success in 2011!
Remember to train your techs on inspecting for termite damage and install those monitors.
Ask your Residex Sales Representative how you can GET STARTED in termite monitoring!
- Kills bed bugs in bedding (mattress, air mattress, box spring, sofa bed, etc…)
- Soft, comfortable and odorless
- Tough and flexible
- Does not rip and tear on installation
- Maintenance-free
- Saves customers from costly mattress and box spring replacement
- No airborne powders and sprays
- Easy, one-person installation
- Tested on field and lab strains
- Only approved product with the potential to stop an infestation before it starts
- Only four SKUs
- Reduced callbacks
If you recently received this postcard in the mail and are looking for the answer to the Riddle ‘What insect is able to smell the pheromones of a pontential mate from over 6 miles away?, the answer is the Indian Moon Moth.
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ActiveGuard™ Mattress Liners added to treatment programs yield OUTSTANDING results
PHILADELPHIA–Allergy Technologies LLC introduces their newest product, ActiveGuard™ mattress liners, to the US market. ActiveGuard mattress liners are patented, fitted mattress covers proven to kill bed bugs on mattresses and box springs. With extensive lab and field research validation, ActiveGuard is now successfully being used across the country as part of Pest Management Professional’s (PMP) treatment programs to control, and in some cases, prevent bed bug infestation.
“ActiveGuard has demonstrated its ability to kill bed bugs in both the lab and real life scenarios”
Bed bug problems are reaching critical mass in metropolitan areas prompting active product and protocol research. ActiveGuard represents a major development in technology, which has been needed to bolster the success of treatment. “Bed bugs are particularly insidious because they are so difficult to control,” states James Ballard, PhD., BCE of Ballard Pest Management Consulting.
In his independent lab and field studies, Dr. Ballard discovered flaws in current bed bug treatment protocols. “The importance of proper preparation isn’t being stressed enough and new products like active liners are being overlooked,” Ballard asserts. “ActiveGuard has demonstrated its ability to kill bed bugs in both the lab and real life scenarios,” Ballard continues. The March 2010 issue of PCT Magazine more fully reports on these impressive results of Dr. Ballard’s field study. Many PMPs use encasements to trap any live bugs or nymphs that were missed in treatment. ActiveGuard is different, in that within 72 hours, whatever is left on the mattress and box spring dies and installation is significantly easier with no ripping or tearing. This means no live bugs crawling around under you while you sleep. “We’re using it in places with a high probability of reinfestation,” says Joe Silvestrini of Pest Control Technicians, Inc. in Norristown, PA. ”ActiveGuard actually kills bed bugs, which is essential in preventing reinfestation.”
Originally developed to combat dust mites and asthma by medical entomologists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, ActiveGuard is a natural extension of the malaria nets, or bed nets, used by millions or people throughout the world for over 50 years. While new to the U.S., ActiveGuard (under the brand name Astex®) liners have been available in Europe and Asia for the last ten years with over 40,000 units sold. Allergy Technologies LLC, the patent holder and manufacturer, sponsored successful field trials in the US where, in 1321 liner months (number of bed bug free months since liner installation), only 2 non-bedding complaints were recorded. Its continuous protection, easy installation and success rate make ActiveGuard a natural choice for PMPs, public health and housing agencies and shelters, universities, property managers, hotels and other transient lodging facilities. “We’re using ActiveGuard with great success,” discloses Robert Mercante, President of RAMBUG Pest Control, Inc. in Brooklyn, NY. “It’s very effective when used in a total treatment program. When we find something that gives us highly effective results, we stick with it….”Mercante says.
For more information on ActiveGuard Mattress Liners, call 800-526-4222 or contact your local Residex Solution Center.
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GutterGuard installed on roof gutters
LeafDefier installed on porch gutters
Clogged gutters create water retention. In the winter months, this 
retention is how ice damming begins. During daylight hours the snow and ice on the roof melt. Gutter debris blocks melting snow and ice during the day causing moisture to get trapped in the gutter and refreeze overnight when temperatures fall. This creates buildup and excess weight on gutters. The Leaf Defier® design not only keeps debris out and water running freely, the light weight and flexible polyurethane material will not freeze.
Photos taken by Rick Allen, Residex LLC
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