At the beginning of each year, I like to inform those of you following along with our newsletter about some of the internal events at Insects Limited. Many of you tune in to find out about the latest in stored product insect research, relevant case studies for practical purposes or best practices, but you do not get to see the things we accomplish as a company to grow and to pursue our purpose: To help protect the world’s food and cherished belongings from damage by insect pests.

Insects Limited delivers on its purpose of making the world a better place by helping to protect its food and cherished belongings from damage by pests by focusing on 4 pillars: Science, Innovation, Quality, and Education.

It is an exciting time at Insects Limited. Click to view the newest development with our company, Insects Limited…

The reason this company exists is to make the world a better place by helping to protect its food and cherished belongings from damage by insect pests. Read about the year we had in 2023…

About 3 years ago if you were a pest control professional or food manufacturing sanitarian, and you identified an insect as a Red-Legged Ham Beetle, you were probably squinting your eyes and scratching your head in disbelief. Fast forward to 2023, and you probably wonder why they have taken a foothold in some of your locations.

It was worth it.

Sweating the details, investing the capital, fretting for the first two months after the announcement and wondering if anyone is going to show up, organizing the tours, acquiring the sponsorships, working with the speakers, creating the content, designing the posters, sacrificing other areas of the business, assembling welcome packets, multiple site visits, arguments/heated conversations, and (oh yeah) preparing a presentation as well as moderating.

It was all worth it.

Originally, the SightTraps were placed with the intent of monitoring for Cigarette Beetles which it did very well. So much so that it alerted the customer to just how big of a problem the facility had. Click to view…

If you are not taking temperature into consideration when executing a pest control program, then it is highly unlikely you can categorize this program as “integrated pest management.”