Completed Pest Management Foundation Research Reports

ANTS

• Impact of Ant Control Technologies On Insecticide Runoff and Efficacy
• Is It Easy to Be Urban? Convergent Success in Urban Habitats Among Lineages of A Widespread Native Ant
• Leveraging the Chemistry of Colony Organization for the Management of a Widespread and Expanding Urban Pest Ant
• Mitigating Insecticide Runoff from Houses Receiving Treatments for Ant Infestations

BED BUGS

• Bed bugs exhibit limited ability to develop heat resistance
• Determining the Activation and Taxis of Bed Bugs in Response to CO2
• Screening of field-collected bed bug isolates for resistance to non-chemical treatments: are they developing heat resistance

COCKROACHES

• The Perfect Meal: Determining How Aging Effects Cockroach Gel Bait Performance
• Effects of house and landscape characteristics on the abundance and diversity of perimeter pests

FLIES

• Effects of Bulb Degradation on Fly Attraction to Insect Light Traps

OCCASIONAL INVADERS

• Evaluation of Exclusion to Prevent Indoor Infestations of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

RODENTS

• Rats follow their nose: Using social structure and scent origins to produce new tools for urban pest management
• Temporal and Space-Use Changes by Rats in Response to Predation by Feral Cats in an Urban Ecosystem
• Trends in urban rat ecology: a framework to define the prevailing knowledge gaps and incentives for academia, pest management professionals (PMPs) and public health agencies to participate

SPIDERS

• Cobweb Management and Low-risk Sprays as IPM Strategies to Control the Marbled Cellar Spider, Holocnemus pluchei (Araneae: Pholcidae)
• Comparisons of three chemical treatments to determine efficacy on two species of spiders, Tegenaria agrestis and Latrodectus hesperus
• Efficacy of Several Pesticide Products on Brown Widow Spider (Araneae: Theridiidae) Egg Sacs and Their Penetration Through the Egg Sac Silk

OTHER VERTEBRATE PESTS

• A Non-Lethal Technique for Raccoon Removal from Human-occupied Structures

WASPS

• Painting eaves to deter paper wasp nesting, Polistes carolina (Linnaeus) (Hymenoptera:Vespidae)