What does it take to be good at pest control? How is HAWKS different and why should I care?

To be good at pest population management and extermination, you’ve got to be a talented generalist with a rock-solid mechanical aptitude. Entomology is important but we work with a very narrow spectrum of economic pests in protecting human built structures. This is especially true of homes and the families and pets who live there.

Most importantly, we manage the use and placement of pesticides. Most importantly, we need to have a responsible and professional understanding of risk management, of applied toxicology, of environmental fate and environmental protection. We need to understand the basics of human psychology because of the sometimes heartbreaking relationship between mental deterioration and serious pest problems in the subject residence. 

On the professional level, we are actually practicing a unique and newly emerging form of engineering. There are important physical science principles that are essential to our professional work practice: thermodynamics of heat accumulation and movement, aerosol and evaporative physics, material sciences, soil sciences, hydrology, the physical chemistry of water and the movement of free water, moisture and condensation in and around built structures and how climate and micro-climate interact in and around built structures over the 24 hour cycle. 

Entomology (the study of insects) is important too, but it’s importance is rather narrow and only the beginning of what a highly skilled pest management generalist brings to the service needs of customers. Each built structure is different. Customization is more art than science. 

The Art of Pest Management is essential to providing safe and effective pest control across the many differing and complex environments created by humanity’s essential use human buildings and family residences, 24 hours a day, every day they exist. The pests of human kind are always at the periphery. That is why the idea of pest management is essential. It’s all about the boundary that pests are always testing between us and them. 

Prompt, reliable and faithful service is everything, especially when it comes from talented generalists who are conscientious and caring. Together we create the best opportunity to achieve the quality of cooperation that keeps buildings pest free. There is no better way to protect the people inside from the pests and the pesticides that control them. Hawks is different in many ways, but our devotion to collaboration, customization and safety may be the most important difference of all to our customers.

If you need pest control services in the Wichita area, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.