University of Tennessee professorship honors Arrow Exterminators’ chairman

Arrow Exterminators announced the Joe Thomas Endowed Professorship has been established at the University of Tennessee in honor of the company’s longtime owner and chairman.

The professorship recognizes his contributions to Arrow Exterminators and the pest management industry while supporting education and leadership development for future generations. Thomas is a member of the Pest Management Professional Hall of Fame (Class of 2009).

The Joe Thomas Endowed Professorship was created with an initial gift of $100,000 and a commitment to raise an additional $500,000 through the pest management industry. It will create lasting faculty support while celebrating Thomas’ legacy of service, entrepreneurship and industry advancement.

For 54 years, Thomas has devoted his career to Arrow Exterminators, a company that has been in business for 62 years, serving as owner and chairman. He has helped shape the company into one of the premier family-owned pest management firms in the nation. As the visionary behind Arrow Exterminators’ growth, Thomas has provided the steady leadership, values-driven culture, and long-term strategic direction that have guided the company to $500 million in annual revenue.

“The University of Tennessee helped shape my foundation for leadership, and it is my hope that this professorship will help prepare future generations to serve, lead and strengthen the pest management industry for years to come,” Thomas said.

The professorship reflects Thomas’ deep commitment to education, leadership development and the future of the pest management profession. By supporting exceptional faculty at the University of Tennessee, it will strengthen teaching, research and outreach that prepare future leaders, advance practical knowledge and serve the needs of students, businesses and communities.

“To so many people, he is Joe Thomas, the visionary leader who helped build Arrow Exterminators into what it is today. To me, he is Daddy,” said Arrow Exterminators CEO Emily Thomas Kendrick, Thomas’ daughter. “I have had the blessing of watching him lead with humility, integrity and a deep love for people. This professorship is a meaningful way to honor not only his remarkable career, but also the values he has lived every day and passed on to our family, our company, and our industry.”

Through the collective support of Arrow Exterminators, industry partners, colleagues and friends, the Joe Thomas Endowed Professorship will stand as a permanent tribute to Thomas’ remarkable service, his University of Tennessee roots, and his lifelong dedication to building people, companies and an industry with vision and integrity.

About Arrow Exterminators

Family-owned and -operated since 1964, Atlanta-based Arrow Exterminators is the largest family-owned pest and termite control company in the United States, ranked by revenue. It has 201 service centers, over 3,700 team members and revenues exceeding $500 million. Featuring QualityPro accreditation by the National Pest Management Association, the company offers innovative and environmentally responsible services to protect homes and businesses of customers and operates in 16 states, including Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

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Protected: Why trust matters more than ever

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BASF: Prelontra and Selontra

Effective rodent management requires a strategic approach grounded in real activity, account sensitivity and long-term prevention. BASF’s switch approach is two-fold: Prelontra Rodent Monitoring Soft Block helps determine when to monitor, when to activate control and how to help reduce the risk of future infestations. When used alongside Selontra Rodent Bait, Prelontra supports a flexible, informed framework for managing rodent pressure across a range of account types.

The direct Selontra switch is best suited for accounts where rodent activity is already confirmed, and rapid population reduction is the priority. Selontra features a non-anticoagulant mode of action that helps combat resistant rodents and stops feeding after a lethal dose. Its active ingredient, cholecalciferol, also helps reduce the risk of secondary toxicity to non-target animals, which is an increasingly important consideration as regulatory attention continues to grow. For best results, success should be measured by activity reduction, not bait consumption alone.

Prelontra offers a more measured path for sensitive environments, rodenticide-restricted accounts, or situations where neophobia may slow bait acceptance. As a non-toxic monitoring soft block, it verifies feeding, identifies pressure zones and helps build feeding confidence before Selontra is introduced. After control is achieved, rotating back to Prelontra supports continuous monitoring and prevention. Together, Prelontra and Selontra give professionals a practical switch strategy for smarter, more sustainable rodent management.

About BASF

BASF Corp., headquartered in Florham Park, N.J., is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has approximately 16,000 employees in North America and had sales of $25.7 billion in 2022.

BASF creates chemistry for a sustainable future by combining economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. More than 110,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of its customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. BASF’s portfolio is organized into six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions.

In addition to Prelontra Monitoring Soft Block and Selontra Rodent Bait, BASF offers many pest control solutions to professionals, including, but not limited to:

• Termite Bait Solutions
• Alpine Cockroach Solutions
• Alpine Flea & Tick Solutions
• Alpine WSG
• PT Brand Pressurized Insecticides
• Fendona CS
• Termidor line
  

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Atticus: Antapex WSG

Atticus LLC’s new brand alternatives — including Antapex WSG, featuring dinotefuran — combine trusted active
ingredients and agronomic value, giving you more options to command the season.

Antapex WSG contains the active ingredient dinotefuran, a nonrepellent insecticide that provides quick
kill of key pests in and around residential and commercial structures, food-handling establishments and
production animal housing. Antapex is an easy-to-use granule formulation that readily dissolves in water
with no clogging of nozzles and filters. When applied as a surface spray, Antapex provides residual
control of a broad spectrum of insect pests, including ants, cockroaches and bed bugs.

Atticus offers several other insecticides for pest management professionals (PMPs) and vector control specialists, including:

• Turonyx Ultra FX (beta-cyfluthrin, imidacloprid)
• Turonyx Ultra Ready-to-Spray (beta-cyfluthrin, imidacloprid)
• Talak (bifenthrin)
• Elusion 2 SC (chlorfenapyr)
• Tirade 1% Dust (cyfluthrin)
• Tirade CS with EnduraCap Technology (cyfluthrin)
• Adjourn SC (deltamethrin)
• Notion 2 SC Flex (imidacloprid)
• DeVito With EnduraCap Technology (lambda-cyhalothrin)
• Nixlo IGR Concentrate (pyriproxyfen)
  

About Atticus LLC

Atticus is a demand-driven manufacturer of battle-tested chemistries. It’s 100 percent American-owned, with a purpose to enhance daily life and be committed to long-term viability. Through the Cary, N.C.-based company’s EcoCore portfolio, Atticus focuses on the beautification of the environment. With 95 percent manufactured on U.S. soil and one of the broadest, most diversified portfolios in the industry, the Atticus team aims to execute with clarity and focus — delivering on its value proposition: Relevant. Simple. Reliable. 

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PMPs saddle up for PestWorld 2026

The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) wrapped up PestWorld 2026, its largest event of the year. Held over four days at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas, the event featured educational sessions, networking opportunities and an exhibit hall featuring services, solutions, software and equipment geared to pest management professionals (PMPs).

As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas, and PestWorld 2026 was no exception. A record-setting number of pest control industry pros turned out Oct. 20 through 23, the NPMA’s biggest event so far. Attendees and exhibitors embraced the Western theme with their attire, booth design and giveaways. Check out the highlights below.

This year, PestWorld’s Gold sponsor was Serve; Silver sponsors were Bell Laboratories, Cetane, Control Solutions Inc., Netic, Program Brokerage Corp. (PBC) and Rollins Inc.; Bronze sponsors were Douglas Products, Fieldster and Veseris; the additional sponsor was Pi Chi Omega.

This year’s Day of Service featured playful puppies. Aardvark Pest Management’s Alyssia Zimmaro cuddles with a furry friend. PHOTO: PMP STAFF

The Texas Pest Control Association’s Executive Director Todd Kercheval offered attendees a Texas-sized welcome during the Oct. 21 Main Stage session. PHOTO: PMP STAFF

The National Pest Management Association’s PestWorld 2026 booth featured a Western theme. PHOTO: PMP STAFF

Many of the educational sessions offered at PestWorld 2026 allowed participants to earn continuing educational units. PHOTO: PMP STAFF

PestWorld 2026 attendees head to educational sessions, which covered technical and business topics. PHOTO: PMP STAFF

National Pest Management Association CEO Dominique Stumpf, CAE, welcomes attendees to PestWorld 2026. PHOTO: PMP STAFF

Anderson, Calif.-based Big Time Pest Control President and CEO Mike Bullert, tells PestWorld 2026 attendees about his pest control journey at the Oct. 21 Main Stage session. PHOTO: PMP STAFF

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PMP Hall of Fame profile: Gene White

The 2026 PMP Hall of Fame dinner and induction ceremony took place Oct. 19 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. This year’s inductees are Mark Boyd, founder of Control Solutions Inc.; Bobby, Raleigh and Dennis Jenkins of ABC Home & Commercial Services; Frank Meek of Rollins; and the late Gene White of Rentokil. Visit the PMP Hall of Fame website.

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For those who knew him, either from working side-by-side with him or sitting through one of his many technical presentations at a pest control industry event, the induction of Eugene “Gene” Donald White II, BCE, into the Pest Management Professional (PMP) Hall of Fame likely seems to be years overdue.

Baby-faced Gene White in his younger years. (Photo: White Family)

But no one could have predicted his sudden death at age 64, with heart failure after a surfing lesson while in Honolulu, Hawaii, for the Society for Vector Ecology 2022 International Congress. In fact, it is with some regret we are inducting him this year as our posthumous candidate, as we wish we could have him here to enjoy the accolades. Because there are so many accolades to share.

From athlete to entomologist

White was one of four children born to the Rev. E. Donald White and his wife, Peg; he also had a paternal
half-sibling. Born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Green, a city outside Akron, Ohio, White loved nature, art and being on the track and football teams. Green High School went undefeated in football his senior year, which led to a scholarship to Glenville State College (now University) in West Virginia.

In 1981, fresh from college with a biology degree and a minor in oral communications, White came back to Northeast Ohio to work as a technician with Orkin Pest Control — while also playing for the Canton Bulldogs, a semi-professional football team. As the story goes, a teammate also worked in pest control and got him into the now-defunct Metro Exterminators as a technical director. That position led him to interact with Bio-Serv, the distribution arm of Rose Pest Solutions (then known as Rose Exterminator Co.).

By 1984, he signed on with Rosefor the beginning of a long and fruitful career.

From managing the Rose office in Fort Wayne, Ind., to becoming a corporate trainer at the then-headquarters in Troy, Mich., the company also led to White settling down and becoming a family man. He married Nancy White (no relation!) in 1985, who worked for Able Pest Control, and had three daughters: Kelsey, Kyle and Karey.

Gene White in high school. (Photos: White Family)

Higher education

By the early 1990s, White felt a pull to further his education every time he attended the Urban Pest Management Conference at Purdue University. In 1993, he was accepted into Purdue for his master’s of science degree in entomology and moved his family to West Lafayette, Ind. He returned to Rose in 1996 after earning his degree.

Not only had White worked for a company that was founded in 1860 by PMP Hall of Famer Solomon Rose — and thus considered to be the oldest continuously run pest control firm in the United States — but his post-graduate work had another PMP Hall of Fame connection: Under the guidance of Dr. Tim Gibb, White was able to close a termite research project begun in the 1940s by Purdue legend Dr. John Osmun (Class of 1997).

He returned to Rose after graduation, staying until 2013, when then-Rentokil North America (now Rentokil-Terminix) hired him to be a technical director for its Central Market, from Canada to Mexico. He traveled extensively, training hundreds and eventually earning a promotion to technical director of all of Rentokil North America.

Worldwide influence

At the time of his passing, White was excelling in the position he had held since 2017, global director of vector management. It was a position created shortly after Rentokil Vector Disease Control International (VDCI), a holding company with the largest mosquito control and lake management service divisions in the U.S.

Gene White’s photos of pests both in the wild and under a microscope are still used by PMP today. (Photo: White Family)

White’s combination of industry knowledge, educational expertise, sense of humor and an enthusiasm for helping people around him succeed made him the perfect candidate for the new role. Although mosquitoes and other vector pests were not his top specialty, he made it his business to learn as much as he could so he could best manage Rentokil teams focused on this service segment in 30 countries worldwide.

At the time of his passing, White left behind his wife, Janet, as well as two daughters, three stepchildren, and a combined 10 grandchildren. His daughter Kelsey preceded him in 2020. Two grandchildren and a great-grandchild have been born since.

Industry fraternity Pi Chi Omega, of which White was a longtime member, today offers the Gene White Field Excellence Grant, created with support from Rentokil Terminix, Burt’s Pest Control and the Indiana Pest Management Association. As a grant instead of a college scholarship, the intention is to “fund projects or career milestones like advanced skill acquisition, conference attendance, technical courses or new product/concept creations.”

White’s professional legacy lives on not only through the grant and through the hundreds of professional-level photographs of insects, wildlife and even business-themed “stock art” he took over the years, but through the hearts and minds of the many pest management professionals he helped train and encourage over his lifetime.

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Bell Labs: STREAMLINE iQ

The newest addition to the iQ product lineup, STREAMLINE iQ, is a multiple-catch mouse trap powered by Bell Sensing Technologies. Sleek and durable, its small profile makes it ideal for any account. With the ability to check each device from up to 100 feet away for rodent activity trend analysis, STREAMLINE iQ minimizes labor and gives pest management professionals (PMPs) data to make informed decisions, while eliminating checking empty traps.

About Bell Labs

Founded in 1974 by the late Malcolm Stack, a member of the Pest Management Professional Hall of Fame (Class of 2004), Bell Labs today is based in Windsor, Wis., and manufactures rodenticides and other rodent control products available to the pest control and agricultural industries on six continents. It is led by another Pest Management Professional Hall of Famer, CEO Steve Levy (Class of 2022). Bell’s complete line of products includes rodenticides, tamper-resistant bait stations, smart rodent monitoring devices, glue boards, mechanical traps, and attractants.

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