How a rat named Ben conquered America
By Michael Moran
In the summer of 1971, American moviegoers lined up around the block to watch a man train rats. Willard, based on Stephen Gilbert’s novel Ratman’s Notebooks. The film, which I saw five or six times in one day on Jerome Avenue in The Bronx where I was staying with my cousin Jack, starred a […]
Microshare and EverSmart™ Pest expand to the Pacific Rim and Latin America
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — This summer has seen Microshare on the march in new regions, with new airports, Pest Control Operators and food production plants embracing EverSmart™ solutions that have already made their mark in Europe and North America.
In June, Microshare took its […]
Complexity made simple: Digitally twinning sensors to work where you’re going to deploy them
By Charles Paumelle and Tim Panagos
In a food processing plant, a grocery store, a hospital or a hotel, pest monitoring is not a nice-to-have. It is an audit trail, a compliance record and an early-warning system rolled into one. It’s also a safeguard against reputational damage and regulatory action. Yet, like any data […]
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Pest Control in food facilities: The last unmonitored vector
FSMA 204’s governance logic stops at the loading dock, but the direction of travel for regulation is clear: 24/7 remote monitoring is the future
By Michael Moran and Tom Jackson […]
Pestory: How the ‘Rat Pack’ got its name
By Michael Moran
As a proud New Jersey boy – even in my rebellious punk and garage rock drummer years – I was always partial to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and the Rat Pack. My dad, an Irish immigrant, would come home from date night with mom, an Italian American beauty, pay the babysitter, push his four kids up […]
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ZRH is World Travel Awards “Best Airport in Europe” for 21 years running
- 32M passengers
- 3 terminals
- 800 washrooms
- 20% cleaning task reduction
- 10% FTE labour savings
- Clean as necessary, not as scheduled
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ZRH engaged Microshare® to manage software needs […]
Microshare adds 31 languages to its EverSmart™ Pest and Clean suites
Microshare, Inc., makers of the EverSmart™ suite data solutions, has added 31 new languages, reflecting a major expansion of its international customer base.
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At huge shopping mall, EverSmart™ Pest 30% reduction in rodent activity in 60 days
Adam’s Pest Control, Minneapolis, Minn., deployed EverSmart™ Rodent in one of the world’s largest malls. The results transformed the PCO’s understanding of rodent activity in this complex space, helping drive active responses that left rodents nowhere to […]
Pestory: The Hantavirus cruise and a virus contained
By Michael Moran
Too soon? Is the hantavirus outbreak aboard a Dutch expedition cruise ship MV Hondius far enough in the rearview mirror for us to talk turkey about rats? This blog, after all, proports to be about pests and history, and a viral outbreak where exposed humans are still in quarantine is stretching the definition of history.
But, well, […]
EverSmart™ Pest tackles New York – Microshare technology helping Gotham reign in rat complaints
Dr. Bobby Corrigan, Microshare Advisor and global guru of urban rodent control, was quoted in The New Yorker magazine’s February 14 online edition describing his experience with Microshare’s EverSmart™ Pest, the technology he chose for “sensoring-up” the rodent rich New York City subway system.
The New Yorker chose to […]