Eastern Washington | Spokane, WA
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM – 3:45 PM
Location: Spokane Hive
CEUs: 6 CEUs anticipated - WA, ID, OR
Capacity: 100
Join pest management professionals from across Washington for a full day of education focused on real-world application, emerging pest pressures, and evolving best practices. This year’s program brings together industry experts to deliver practical insight you can take directly into the field.
Registration includes full seminar access, anticipated CEUs, and lunch.
Spokane Hive
2904 E Sprague Ave
Spokane, WA 99202
A small room block will be available at the Davenport Grand for attendees needing overnight accommodations. Additional hotel information will be shared soon.
Laurel Hansen
Explore the biology, behavior, and regional significance of velvety tree ants and other ant pressures impacting pest management professionals in the Pacific Northwest. This session will focus on identification, colony structure, customer concerns, and practical management strategies.
Joshua Milnes
Explore the biology, behavior, and management of common nuisance invaders including stink bugs, seed bugs, and emerging invasive threats such as spotted lanternfly. Learn how to identify these pests and implement effective, regionally relevant control strategies.
Jonathan Richardson
Learn how to build effective rodent control programs using a comprehensive approach that includes inspection, exclusion, trapping, sanitation, monitoring, and responsible rodenticide stewardship. This session will help attendees strengthen foundational practices while adapting to changing regulations and customer needs.
Lisa Eppler
This practical session will focus on cockroach biology, inspection, treatment planning, and real-world strategies for improving control outcomes. Attendees will gain technician-ready takeaways for challenging residential, commercial, and multifamily environments.
Howard Franklin
Dive into fly identification, biology, breeding sources, and control strategies. This session will address common and challenging fly issues, including sanitation, monitoring, source reduction, and long-term prevention in residential and commercial accounts.
Andrew Sutherland, Ph.D., BCE
As regional climate and weather patterns shift, insect development, life cycles, and behaviors may shift as well, potentially changing pest control strategies, tactics, and scheduling. Increases in ambient temperature can drive accelerated development in most insects, enabling populations of pests like flies and fleas to increase more rapidly. Warmer winters may allow some social wasp colonies to persist perennially, while temporal shifts in rainfall may lead to changes in the swarm seasons of subterranean termites. In this session, attendees will learn how temperature, weather, and climate affect insects and discuss how these biological and ecological shifts may influence pest control practices.
This program is designed to provide practical, actionable knowledge to help pest management professionals respond to changing pest pressures, strengthen service quality, and deliver strong results for their customers and communities.