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Progressive Pest Management
Edward Trilhe, President
P.O. Box 930-428
Rockaway Beach NY 11693
718-945-9005
[email protected]
Services/Products/IPM Description
Range of Products and Services
Progressive Pest Management, Inc is a full service, 24 hour/day commercial and industrial pest control company serving the New York Tri-State area. We specialize in treating sensitive environments such as schools, health care facilities, pharmaceutics, food processing and hospitality, using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and customer education as our primary tools.
Services/Products Categories
- School
- Commercial
- Structural
Definition of Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Integrated Pest Management is the use of numerous control methods (i.e. monitoring/record keeping, cultural, physical, mechanical, educational and pesticides when necessary) to effectively reduce the pest population to a low enough "injury level" they cause little or no economic damage.
How Pest Problems Are Identified
Pest problems are identified through the use of sighting logs that are filled out by the customer, and by inspections which are done by our service technicians during every scheduled service.
Tools, Practices, and Materials Used/Sold
Practices Used to Prevent or Control Pests
We stress the use of exclusion, the elimination of pest attractions and the education of our customers as our first lines of defense to control pests.
Biological Controls Used?
We do not at this time use any biological controls. Currently, we are evaluating the benefits of utilizing nematodes to control ants and flies.Borates Used?
We use Niban and Nibor-D.
Synthetic Chemicals Used?
Maxforce (fipronil), Precor (methoprene), Avert (avermectin), Kicker (pyrethrins) and Ultracide (permethrin).
Top Ten Pesticides Used/Sold/Recommended
Our most frequent-use pesticides are Niban, Nibor-D, Maxforce, Precor, Ultracide, Avert and kicker. We do not sell and/or recommend any pest control products.
How Much Pesticide Used Per Year, and How Applied?
Any customer or potential customer may request a copy of our N.Y., N.J. or P.A. pesticide use report. Pesticides are applied in strict accordance with the label instructions.
Uses Physical or Mechanical Controls?
Yes, we use physical and mechanical controls such as Vector fly lights, door sweeps, mesh screening, snap traps, netting, jar traps, live catch traps and glue boards.
Evaluation
How Effectiveness of Pest Management Systems is Evaluated
We evaluate the effectiveness of our pest management system by carefully tracking the number of sightings of our customers, the visual counts of our monitoring devices and by the decreased use of pesticides/month which are applied.
References
N.Y. Congressional Nursing Center, Adrian Cox, Director of Facilities, 718-284-0039; Forest Laboratories, Inc, Doug Wolfert, Manager of Facilities, 631-858-6010; Meyer-Jabara Hotels (6 locations), Don Freidhoff, Chief Engineer, 610-530-4619.