Snug as a Rodent in the Ground

You can see the little rodent burrow on the upper right.

The fake looking rock on the bottom is a rodent bait station, containing either a trap or rodenticide.

The hope is that the rodent will come up out of the burrow, crawl along the wall, and enter the fake rock, where he will then be "eliminated."

And that, my friends, is what we call exterminating.

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The Q Factor

I don't know what this is.

But it's in your restaurant.

And it doesn't look good.

Thanks.

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Living Legend

Our man Nick, going above and beyond the call of duty with some serious belly time on the floor of ground zero.

This service manager and certified applicator with years of experience is not above jumping face first into the muck to find those breeding sites and sanitation issues that are the cause of so much misery and suffering in the world.

No wonder they call him the Pope of Pest Management.

After finding the mess, little Nicky steamed it hard, foamed it up and down, and blazed the glory trail all the way to pristine living, while finding time for the masterful technique we lovingly refer to as "The Anthony Identity."

For sweeter Italian, you'd have to go to San Genarro.

Bottom line: Clean your kitchen better so Nick doesn't have to do this every week.

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Take Off, Eh?

Look in your hoses.

These were emptying into the drain on the right.

No one really thought to look into the pipes.

So they were just assuming the flies were coming in from outside.

Nope.

Breeding in the hoses.

First we steamed them and then we chemically treated them.

Flies decided to buzz off.

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Let's hear it for the boys (and adult females and various nymphs and instars)

Nice shot of some action by our man Nicky.

When you see this, it's already way too late.

The dark color and the pointier shapes let you know that these are some well fed bugs.

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Surprised? Not really

What's under your counter?

Have a good weekend from Ew York City.

The Bed Bug Tapes

I know this picture isn't worth a thousand words, but it can still serve to illustrate this point:

Bed bugs can be anywhere and everywhere!

Here they are hiding behind the tape on the back of a photo frame.

It wasn't until the resident continued to complain about bites after her room had already been treated that we started to find harborages in the strangest places, case in point.

The one place you neglect to look is where they could be.

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Pestlandia

Just another day in fly heaven.

Get down and clean.

Ew York City: we're just trying to help

Photo by Curtis

A Non Pest Related Post (Sort of)

Here's a picture of a pool of petroleum in front of my building.

Humans can be pesky too.

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Bonus Time

Just wanted to show you what we found under somebody's living room radiator, full of beetles.

Apparently, the beetles had a thing for tomato paste.

Drain is something dangerous

 Sometimes the drains I come across in NYC restaurants are off the charts with insanity.

 Flies all over this kitchen, and the drains are a big part of the reason why.

Had to dig this one out by hand.

Somebody's got to do this.

In this case it was our Nightcrawler Melvin.

Good job Mel!!!

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Child Bearing Hips

Here's a picture of a couple flies that decided to land on a glue board to give birth to their eggs.

Bad idea for everyone

Look how many eggs come out of each fly.

The secret to their success is math: there are more of them than there are of us.

That reminds me: do you know how many insects there are per human being on earth?

200,000,000

Two hundred million

Per human

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