NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Health officials plan to meet next week to search for solutions to Nashville’s bed bugs problem. The number of cases has doubled in the area. Business is booming for pest control companies fighting the problem mainly in apartment complexes and extended-stay hotels. Before an exterminator sprays any chemicals, most likely they’ll ask [...]

As many of my friends, family and customers know, in years past I have not been a fan of termite baiting systems. In the 10 years that we have been in business we have installed less than 30 systems and all of those included some type of liquid (conventional) treatment. I had a hard time [...]

The Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) at Volunteer State Community College has awarded Andy and Julie Yant of P.E.S.T. Inc. in Robertson County with the 2011 Rising Star award. The Rising Star award goes to a small business that has had great success utilizing TSBDC resources. Local TSBDC Director Charles Alexander helped the Yants [...]

Andy Yant, owner of P.E.S.T., Inc., a Middle Tennessee Termite and Pest Control Company, assumed his role as President of the Tennessee Pest Control Association (TPCA) for 2011-2012. As President he will continue to serve on the Board of Directors. Yant had served as the state’s Director of Region 3 and as such was a [...]

In our final post celebrating 10 years in business we wanted to talk about some special cases in which we’ve helped families or businesses with unique pests and/or circumstances.  We try to protect the identity of our customers so specific information will only be given about the type of pest and/or what was unique about the [...]

In our continuing series on celebrating 10 years in business, we wanted to give you some practical tips for maintaining a pest free home.  There are several things that you can do to limit your exposure to bugs but sometimes they creep in no matter how hard you try! In general though, pests are looking [...]

In our continuing series we’re going to finish up the last few weeks with some pest control tips.  This week we want to share ten things you can do to limit your mosquito exposure.  We want everyone to be able to enjoy their yards all summer long whether it be for relaxing, gardening or playing! [...]

Today we are continuing our series of celebrating 10 years in business by discussing some of our blessings.  We’ve truly received an infinite amount of blessings but we’ve listed 10 in this post.  Counting your blessings is one of the best things you can do on a daily basis and when you find yourself slipping [...]

OK we’re not the type to boast so we feel a little awkward writing this post but our good friend Jason Elkins suggested some post topics and this was one of them!  After thinking about this topic though, it’s good to think back over the years and at what at the time felt like big [...]

Today we are continuing our series on celebrating 10 years in business by highlighting our 10 best decisions.  We enjoyed splitting up the workload last week and comparing whether we had any of the same “worst decisions” (we did by the way) so we’re following the same format this week.  Andy will list the 5 [...]