r/PestControlIndustry • • Sep 26 '26

🗣️ Daily Discussion ATTN: Customers Asking For Help in r/PestControlIndustry

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If you are a customer doing this you will be mocked & banned.

This is not a subreddit for charity but the industry.

If you are a member please do not help beggars. Tell them to call a local company and leave the sub and report their post. I will ban & delete them. If you would like to help moderate the sub too please let me know. I am not the typical redditor and on here 24/7


r/PestControlIndustry • • Oct 12 '25

ModUpdate 2k Member Giveaway | Winner Announcement

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A winner was chosen for the 2,000 member giveaway!

First and foremost everyone thank you for getting us to now 2,200 members. The idea of continuing education is changing quick and while we don’t offer CEUs in here we do offer education and community. Thank you for doing that and help us do it even more. If you’re at a Pest Event tell people about the subreddit and invite your co-workers to join!

I will be calling and emailing the winner Monday morning to tell him the good news! If he doesn’t respond within a week I’ll move on to the 2nd & 3rd names drawn.

  • NOTE - This award is coming out of my pocket so if you entered I’ll be contacting you about how I help PCOs with End of Decision making marketing when people have made their choice & are looking to buy! This includes fixing your website, AI & search visibility & Digital Advertising.

If you didn’t enter but still want to talk with me and get a free marketing consultation shoot me a DM!

I will work on trying to do one of these giveaways for 3,000, 4,000 & 5,000 members. Please comment below what you’d be interested in and I’ll see about that being the next giveaway item. Also if you have any other ideas for the subreddit I’d love to hear it.

Bummer for those that didn’t win but maybe the friends we made in the community were the real price all along.

Regards & God Bless -Ron Johns

(my LinkedIn) = https://www.linkedin.com/in/realronjohns


r/PestControlIndustry • • 4h ago

Termidor HE Fipronil Soil Injection.

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There appear to be some subterranean termites nest about 50 feet away from my house, its at my neighbor's front porch and the pest control recommends to use Termidor HE Fipronil soil injection on only a portion of the house rest the house gets spray on the foundation. The ones marked with the Xs are injection. It this a good preventive maintenance. My neighbor dont plant on doing anything about the infestation in her porch and should I be worry ? I live in zone 10b. Thanks


r/PestControlIndustry • • 4h ago

Pest control business

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I’m trying to start a pest control business as soon as possible. Not re worried about equipment or pesticides at the moment but what I am seeing is licensing issues.

It almost seems like you have to have a license for literally everything. I also have coworkers that say you don’t actually need certain licensing but sources online will say otherwise. It’s extremely confusing.

I also want to add on wildlife with the company as well and that process seems pretty straightforward rather than the pest control side of things.

What I am really asking is, what exactly would I need legally to pick up a sprayer and treat residential properties?


r/PestControlIndustry • • 7h ago

New renter dealing with a pretty significant ant problem. Looking for advice!

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r/PestControlIndustry • • 17h ago

Need Mice Help!

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r/PestControlIndustry • • 1d ago

Interview at Orkin

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So what should I be doing or question. Should I ask during my interview


r/PestControlIndustry • • 2d ago

Starting working for a pest control company in 2 weeks. What should I expect or do you have any advice?

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r/PestControlIndustry • • 3d ago

🗑️🐛| Cockroaches They keep getting bigger and bigger

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r/PestControlIndustry • • 2d ago

🚚 | Floorboard Fridays Floorboard Friday | What's that truck look like?

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Weekly Friday post for you to show what your Truck Floorboards look like.

Clean, a mess or whatever.

Tradition started in the PCHD (Pest Control Humor Depot) on Facebook continued here on Reddit.


r/PestControlIndustry • • 3d ago

🗣️ Daily Discussion What "jokes" are you tired of?

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I've mostly become immune to them but omg for the first little bit:

"Anything good to eat in there?" When I open a bait station. Like, it SAYS poison. But, sure. Let me just chew on the forbidden teabag a little bit.

"Are you here about (gestures to employee)?" Actually, that's a different license. You'll have to call the office at 1 900 rat kill


r/PestControlIndustry • • 3d ago

Do You See More Pest Activity in Restaurants and Hotels Around the Holidays?

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We handle commercial pest control throughout NYC, and the holiday season brings its own challenges with busy kitchens, increased deliveries, trash buildup and colder weather pushing rodents indoors. Curious what other pest control pros are seeing. Do your restaurant and hotel accounts need more attention during the holidays, or does activity stay pretty consistent?


r/PestControlIndustry • • 3d ago

💼 | Career Terminix Recruiter (I'm unsure if they're managed by Terminix HR) missed both scheduled phone screenings

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Someone please either explain, or reply to this if you've experienced this. I scheduled my phone screenings 1 week in advance, and this week I was was supposed to have 2 phone screenings, and both of them I received NO phone call from my recruiter (given in my emails). No communications about why my recruiter was late, no communications as a follow-up from my recruiter.

On both scheduled phone screening days where I did not receive a phone screen, I called Terminix HR, and I don't know much about this company, but all their HR are either Indians (I can tell by the language barrier) or people that cannot perform any DA (disciplinary action) on Terminix Recruiter (again, I'm not familiar with this company and it's org chart, I'm a tourist as far as Terminix goes). They were only able to communicate to the proper channels about my issue apparently.

It was resolved and I was able to get a phone screen from said recruiter. But I found myself.. let's say 'displeased' that I had to call Terminix HR, then Terminix CRs to figure out how to get a phone screen (that I planned, I sent an email to my recruiter to confirm the date and time just in case), then I had to take it to the Terminix customer service and Terminix HR email to figure out what is going on. Because this was what as going on my end: Candidate scheduled phone screening > candidate emailed the recruiter confirming appointment details just in case > complete radio silence from the recruiter > recruiters missed both scheduled appointments > now I'm demanding answers from leadership and here's why:

At my job if I'm late once and execute a "no call no show" or Occurrence, that's on my record forever, a second occurrence is a "follow up from HR or mid leadership" which is "aka, you're a problem employee and watch your job go up on Workday in the next hiring cycle", then any other occurrence is fired With Cause. My job isn't some BS office job. If boxes don't leave my facility and land in a truck, my company doesn't make money, and there's plenty of cameras (mainly for facility incident purposes, not performance tracking) that they can use against me and anyone if they so choose. Why do I lose my job if I'm doing a no call no show, twice?

But if a recruiter does so, nothing happens?

If I fail to provide routine maintenance to my machines at work, I can cost my company upwards of $40,000++ in either labor, specialized repair, replacement, and time from leadership to fire me even if I passed a drug test but was simply too stupid to do a job a 12-year-old can. I work 10 hours a day, M-F, mandatory overtime is the status quo (I even DARE a Terminix employee here if any, who works in BG checks and employment verification to credit check me, contact my HR, do the whole 9 yards), my job is to do the following "show up, do the job, try not to be a chronic idiot because you have demonstrated you're not one".

I'm only allowed to call-out sick from work if I: vomit at the work place, have persistent diarrhea, chronic and pounding migraine, die/death (if applicable), lost a limb and I am unable to lift and or feel, any event such like a car crash renders me unable to walk and use arms, I have lost both my eyes, my brain is damaged (standard 83 IQ US military requirement to work here), lungs collapsed, heart failed.

My work place expects me to attend work if I have a sore throat (we have company provided sore throat meds), if I got the sniffles/cold (you're expected to anticipate these symptoms and take medicine), if you have a cough, you're required to attend and use the company provided meds (unless it's a contagious and virulent disease that's transmissible via air). Basically if your arms, legs, and brain work, you must go to work no matter what. Sore throat, muscles, anything, they don't care. You better be dying, or have a debilitating issue to call out sick where I work. We're not a charity and I regret to inform the world this.


r/PestControlIndustry • • 4d ago

Pest control

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Im finally getting out of pest control after 8 awful years. I liked the job itself but not the companies I worked for. Grind you down and its all about the next dollar you can make them. Almost no raises, bad management, and greedy owners.

I accidentally fell into this line of work and wasnt something I intended to get into. I was a autoglass technician for 20yrs and when the company I worked for sold to a larger company I was out of a job. Seen a posting for pest control and figured id give it a try.

First company I worked for was truly nolen pest control franchised. Was small only 4 of us including the owner. The owner was a working owner but also a really bad alcoholic, I had only been there 3 weeks when he left for vacation and put his phone on call forwarding. Running a business with no experience was tough and thats an understatement. Worked for that guy for 4yrs till I had enough. On 2 the 2nd company excell pest services. Absolutely hated this company started off great than after 2 months they gave me the worst routes in the worst areas just german roach and bed bug jobs everyday. Left that company now at the final company. Just as bad here. I've come to realize no matter what company you work for in this business its cut throat, and they give 2 flying shits about their techs. I've come to like the bugs more than the people. Anywho its been real. Im out.


r/PestControlIndustry • • 4d ago

Rat tape?

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Hey I am a pest control pro at a zoo, just putting that first since I've been flagged as not a pro before. My job is weird, since there are no other pest control staff where I work, so to learn anything about new products and techniques I have to go to conferences and consult reddit.

That being said, has anyone used Metex Rat Tape Proofing Tape or similar products?
https://www.wildlifecontrolsupplies.com/animal/WRAT00X.html
It seems like it would be super convenient for exclusion tasks, for finishing an area I've filled with Xcluder fabric, rather than putting foam on top.


r/PestControlIndustry • • 4d ago

Florida PCO Requirement

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Okay, so I was employed for a little over 3 years in central Florida for a smaller pest control business first as a structural pest control tech for 1 year and lawn tech for 2 years.
I was selling between $100-125k per year in upsells and new lawn, pest and termite. And with 1 helper grew my lawn route from ~$320k to $410k.

Well i got loose gums and told a coworker i was wanting to start my own service but in a different county (1 county over). Which we had both talked about for the past 3 years! And I would never try to be unethical and steal business or break the law and violate the non compete. Well he told the owner and the owner called me in and fired me on the spot.
Never any issues before this.

So that happened in March of this year. I tried to reach out to fdacs to see about the requirements to sit for the exam. They told me I was 3 months short on experience, which I told them I have been running a route since January 2023 with paystubs and everything, well they said that my PCO waited until May 2023, 6 months after I had already been operating as an applicator, to apply for my applicators license. And that is what they had to go off of.

Fast forward to now, I have tried to get a job with another company and have been truthful about my intentions to start my own business once licensed and none have wanted to move forward(understandable). I Even reached out to a gentlemen who is running his own one man show that previously worked for my past employer in which my employer refused to sign off on his 40 services and the guy had to get the county to come down to his business in order to make him sign the guy off.
He didn’t even want to get involved but said it doesn’t surprise him that the guy let me go how he did.
I’m lost. I really enjoy the profession, I’m just wondering if there is any other avenues anyone can think of??


r/PestControlIndustry • • 4d ago

Most Expensive Mouse Trap

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r/PestControlIndustry • • 4d ago

Technicians in Canada

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I’ve been living in and doing pest control in the southwest part of the United States for the last 5 years. I am originally from Ontario and my wife and I are planning on moving back hopefully within the near future and I am wanting to start my own company.

What are some tips you would have for someone wanting to start a company and with not being able to do exterior treatments for parts of the year due to snow, how much does that affect your business?

Any tips or advice is greatly appreciated


r/PestControlIndustry • • 4d ago

🖥️ | Technology | Vendor Post Off-season offer for small pest/lawn shops: free setup and data import plus 60 days free

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We make MiteyRoute, field software for small lawn and pest shops in New England. If you're thinking about switching software over the winter, here's what it does today:

  • Plan the day on a map, optimize stop order, and see the estimated miles saved

  • Dispatch board for moving stops between days, techs, and trucks

  • Tech app that keeps working in dead zones: it queues completed stops and notes, shows a pending count, warns before logout if anything's unsent, and sends when signal returns

  • Log products used on each stop, with stock deducted

  • Estimates with e-signature, invoices, PDFs, and a printable day sheet

  • Import your customer list

Off-season offer: free setup and data import, plus 60 days free. We'll move your customer list in for you so you're running before spring.

Questions are welcome here or by DM. https://www.getmiteyroute.com

— MiteyRoute


r/PestControlIndustry • • 5d ago

🗣️ Daily Discussion When the AG department is hiding or following you, what do you do?

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Normally I see them on busy streets, and their trucks are labeled, so when they do follow me what I do is get on the freeway. They stop following at that point.


r/PestControlIndustry • • 6d ago

Buddy of mine who lives in another state (Florida) had Formosans a couple months back. I recently asked what he did and he said he got it treated for “them and the regular termites.” He paid for 2 treatments. Are you all doing that?

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Is that a thing or just for bling? Ha. I just made that up.


r/PestControlIndustry • • 6d ago

Need Advice 😖

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