Archive for July, 2009

Pests Don’t Watch The News

Published on July 30th, 2009 by Todd Leyse

Everyone knows the economy isn’t very good right now, except pests. They bite, sting, contaminate, infest, damage, spread disease, regardless of the economy. Like we say on our business cards, “There were even pests in the Garden of Eden”. Our logo has Adam holding an Apple with a larvae sticking out of it, although very hard to see. To us, this means pests have always been here and they are always going to be here.

So in this economy, I’m sure every pest control company has taken on more cancels than they normally would, but how is business overall? We’ve grown every year since 1971, in part, becauses pests don’t watch or read the news. Maybe people shouldn’t pay as close attention to it either - I bet our economy wouldn’t be so bad right now if we didn’t hear every day how bad it was.

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A Pest Control First?

Published on July 25th, 2009 by Todd Leyse

Recently we were called out to a Twin Cities suburb to go after a wildlife creature we’ve never gone after before. On Friday, we got it, and it was a first for us. We caught a chicken! We get calls for squirrels, raccoons, skunks, and opossums, but never before for a chicken.

Fortunately for this chicken, we practiced “Catch and Release”, although with this particular catch, we could have also had an Adam’s Pest Control first - ”Catch and Eat”!

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Pests In The Media

Published on July 20th, 2009 by Todd Leyse

Does the media over cover a topic, and then later not cover it enough? Yes, of course. They cover what is topical, and what others are covering (where do you think many ideas for stories come from?), which is why some subjects get covered ad nauseum.

Relating this to pests, coverage was widespread about Lyme’s Disease (ticks), and then West Nile Virus (mosquitoes), and now Bed Bugs. Have those other diseases or pests gone away? No. From a business standpoint, we are seeing far more impact by bed bugs, yet they pose far less health threats than do the others. Bed bugs do pose a threat to one’s psyche - who wants something feeding on them when they sleep?

One expert stated a year ago that bed bugs will only get worse before they get better. That was a year ago and I’ve seen this to be true. I won’t scare people where we’ve found bed bugs and bat bugs in Minnesota and Wisconsin, but we keep finding them in new places. As for hotels, which everyone talks about as being a source, at least here we aren’t seeing many - at least in our accounts.

What do you think will be the next media darling - pest related?

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