#39 DowDuPont, Spider Silk and Start Up Tips

December 14, 2015 by Steve Jackson

Huge thanks to Aaron Veal of Phoenix Pest Control for the intro and congrats to Bug-Man Pest Services for winning this week’s game show. For episode 39, Bryan shares some start up tips, we discuss DowDuPont, and Steve shares some of the advancements in spider silk production.

This Week’s Contributors:

Bryan Baird (Co-Host) – Bryan Baird is owner of Baird’s Pest Control in Valdosta, GA. and sits as a regional director for the Georgia Pest Control Association. He has been in the pest control industry for over 25 years. A husband and father of two, Bryan somehow has time to be featured on a local radio show and co-host Arthropodcast.

Steve Jackson (Co-Host) – After selling his pest control business, Steve Jackson is currently unemployed. He is a husband and father of two. He enjoys watching college football, catching movies, and learning about his NEW community in Omaha, Nebraska. He also has a weird habit of writing his bios in third person.

WPTC – Trey Howard

Trey is an interesting dude. In 2015, he launched Bug Out Pest Solutions in DeQueen AR. In this 45 minute interview, Jerry asks Trey a variety of questions including how he came into the industry and about his brief golf and music careers. Don’t miss this one!

#103 Nantucket vs. Lyme Disease and a Heat Treatment Gone Wrong

Recorded on Independence Day, this episode has Bryan and Steve discussing a new and interesting method of controlling Lyme Disease through the use of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats). In addition, Bryan tells us about a bed bug heat treatment gone wrong. If you’d like more info on genetic engineered organisms, here are a few podcasts…

WPTC – Daniel Dye Talks Silverfish

For this special episode of Whistling Past the Cemetery, Jerry and Daniel Dye talk silverfish. This is some fascinating stuff!

#102 Honey Bees and Stinging Insects With Critter McCool

For episode 102, we had a request from Michael of All American Pest Management to discuss honey bees. Who better to talk about bees than the one and only Critter McCool? Critter talks about inspections, equipment, extraction and much much more.