New Pest Control Manual Provides Guidance for Plant Operations

The methods, materials, and expectations of professional pest control are changing, and today’s professionals need to change along with them. Whether you have in-house pest control operations or you outsource the job, PCT’s newly released The Service Technician’s Field Manual, by William H Robinson, will provide you with a practical guide to today’s options in pest control.

The 218-page, fully illustrated manual contains extensive information on situation-specific pest control, such as chapters on IPM: Detection and Monitoring; Non-Chemical Control Methods; Chemical Insecticides and Formulations; Application Technology, Economics, and Safety; Structural Fumigation; Indoor and Outdoor Insecticide Application; and Rodent Control.

The manual is not intended to be a read-through from chapter to chapter, rather it groups topics to make it useful as a reference text, to keep basic and applied material together for easy reference, and to enable its use in training programs.

Robinson has spent more than 30 years in research and teaching and has published more than 250 papers and articles on pests, pest control, and application technology. He is chair of the Executive Committee of the International Conference on Urban Pests, and has been technical director of B&G Equipment Co. since 2000. Previous works include Urban Entomology (1995), and Urban Insects and Arachnids (2005).

The Service Technician’s Field Manual (GIE Media, 2011) is available from the PCT Bookstore (www.pctonline.com/store) for $29.95.