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Mike |
McGuinness |
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678-985-8800 |
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Principle/Technical
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678-455-3578 |
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Service
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commercial
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school
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landscape
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residential
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golf course
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other:
restaurants, food plants, food distribution, hotels, healthcare and
pharmaceutical |
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Interpest
provides food safety based pest management services that utilize non-pesticide
techniques to determine pest sources and to remove them. Interpest
modifies our client's premises to reduce harborage sites conducive
to pests. These services are offered to commercial and industrial
clients only. |
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What
is your definition of Integrated Pest Management (IPM)? |
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Integrating non-chemical techniques with
chemical applications in a sequence to eliminate reliance on pesticides
to deal with pests. |
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Is pest management performed on a specific schedule? |
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Monthly, bi-weekly or weekly to food facilities.
Pest focus varies, with attention to cockroaches, rodents, flies and
ants. |
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How are pest problems identified? |
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Properties are monitored with adhesive
traps and lures. Monitoring persists after eliminating infestations
to prevent new issues. |
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What practices
do you use to prevent and/or control pests? |
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Structural and environmental modifications
followed by monitoring, vacuuming and sanitation corrections. |
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Do you
use biological controls? |
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Yes, for voids and enclosed harborages. |
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Do you
use synthetic chemicals? |
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Yes, exterior only, spot or crack and
crevice and only if a pest is present and all other alternatives failed.
Termidor (fipronil). |
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What
are the top 10 pesticides you use/sell/recommend? |
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If pesticides are used, how much are used per year of each? |
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They are applied as a last resortm and
mostly on exteriors only within a crack or crevice. |
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Does
your company perform habitat modification? |
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Caulking and sealing, door sweeps, foaming
large voids, drain cleaning. |
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Do you
use any physical or mechanical controls? |
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Mechanical rodent devicee, adhesive insect
traps, vacuums. |
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What
type of fertilizers do you use/sell/recommend? |
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What
do you usually use/sell/recommend for addressing: |
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cockroaches |
vacuum, monitors, insect growth regulators |
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fire ants |
exterior insect growth regulators |
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ants (indoor) |
Vacuum, cleaning |
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How do
you evaluate effectiveness of your pest management |
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Monthly graphs trending activity in all
monitoring devices, quarterly reviews. |
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Nantuckets Restaurant, Alpharetta GA,
Sonstegard Foods of Georgia. |
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