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Common Types of Rodents

Although there are many different types of rodents, they all can largely have the same fatal impact on your business. Ecolab scientists’ best understand how to eliminate this risk through continued rodent research.

Tips for Cockroach Prevention

Once cockroaches enter your facility, they survive when food and water are available. There are a number of steps that can be taken to prevent entry.

Small Flies and Customer Experience

You’re enjoying a meal with friends at a restaurant and mid-sentence, you notice a fruit fly buzzing around in front of you. While you probably find this to be a nuisance, did you know it is also a sign of sanitation issues in the restaurant?

Pest Files: Locating Ant Nests

A major key to dealing with ants at your facility is to know how to locate an ant's nest and to understand what attracted the ants in the first place.

Ants: Complex, but Controllable Pest

With more than 12,400 species of ants in the world, controlling ants seems complex. By understanding ant behavior, you can easily eliminate them.

Common Types of Ants

Ants can cause serious problems for your business. Use this guide to identify common types of ants so you can confidently maintain a pest-free facility.

Being Proactive About Bed Bugs

With bed bug infestations up more than 16.9% versus prior year*, more and more hospitality customers are looking for bed bug pest control.

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Bed Bugs are Back

After many years of virtual eradication from the hospitality industry, the bed bug is back and showing up in even the most exclusive hotels and resorts.

The Dangers of Cockroaches

Learn how cockroaches can affect food safety.

Diseases Spread by Cockroaches

They are known transmitters of diseases and can easily contaminate food and food-handling surfaces.

Types of Cockroaches

Learn about common species of cockroaches most commonly found in commercial kitchens and food handling facilities.

Facts About Large Flies ("House Flies")

Large flies, also known as filth flies, include houseflies, bottle/blow flies and flesh flies. Understanding the biology and behavior of these common types of large flies can help with fly prevention in your facility.

Large Flies and Food Safety

Large flies including houseflies, bottle or blow flies and flesh flies are also called “filth flies” because they breed in filth such as manure, human excreta, dumpsters, garbage, and decaying vegetation, causing a food safety risk.

How to Prevent Large Fly Problems

To protect your business from the health risk posed by large flies such as houseflies and bottle/blow flies, there are steps you and your pest management provider can take to minimize food safety risks.

Benefit of Outside-In Approach

Implementing a comprehensive program utilizing an Outside-In Approach can greatly improve your efforts towards large fly prevention in your facility.

Facts About Small Flies

Depending on the types of flies that are present, different actions may be required for treatment and elimination. Understanding some of the more common types of small flies and their preferred breeding sites can help with fly prevention in your facility.

Small Flies and Food Safety

Although the fruit fly (also known as a small fly) has historically been considered a nuisance pest, recent research proves that small flies contaminate food with bacteria carried from unsanitary surfaces (such as trash, drains, mops, etc.).

Fly Control and Prevention

There are many simple actions that can make a big difference in avoiding a fruit fly infestation.

Rodent Defense: The Science Behind Rodent Control

A winning playbook for rodent defense and food safety.

The dangers of rodents have on Food Safety

Food Safety 101: Inspecting Winter Deliveries for Rodents

Whether your food facility is located in the frigid north or hot south, winter months mean cooling weather which can significantly impact rodent behavior.

Educating employees on rodent prevention

Employees, Your First Defense Against Rodents

Because rodents are prolific breeders and rarely seen during the day or when operation is in full swing, an infestation can develop quickly and your employees need to know how to act quickly.

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Common Types of Rodents

Tips for Cockroach Prevention

Small Flies and Customer Experience

Ants

Pest Files: Locating Ant Nests

Ants: Complex, but Controllable Pest

Common Types of Ants

Bed Bugs

Being Proactive About Bed Bugs

Bed Bugs are Back

Cockroaches

The Dangers of Cockroaches

Diseases Spread by Cockroaches

Types of Cockroaches

Large Flies

Facts About Large Flies ("House Flies")

Large Flies and Food Safety

How to Prevent Large Fly Problems

Benefit of Outside-In Approach

Small Flies

Facts About Small Flies

Small Flies and Food Safety

Fly Control and Prevention

Rodents

Rodent Defense: The Science Behind Rodent Control

Food Safety 101: Inspecting Winter Deliveries for Rodents

Employees, Your First Defense Against Rodents

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