Pest Control on Campus

Pest control is taken very seriously on campus--please call the appropriate group immediately if you are experiencing problems, rather than submitting a work request.

Insects--Building Interiors
For Academic building locations and Athletic Department buildings 723-2281
For Student Residences and Housing administrative locations 725-1602
For Faculty Staff Residents (at your home, for all needs other than termites) Contact Crane Pest directly at 415-922-1666.
Insects--Grounds and Exteriors
All campus buildings, including:
  • Academic Buildings
  • Student Residences
  • Athletic Department buildings
  • Medical School and Hospital
 Grounds Services Pest Management
Rodents and Wild Animals (live or dead)
For Academic building locations 723-2281
For Student Residences and Housing administrative locations 725-1602
For Faculty Staff Residents (at your home, for all needs other than termites) Contact Crane Pest directly at 415-922-1666.
All Other Animals
Large animals (deer, cows, etc) Report to Santa Clara County at 650-329-2643 or  650-723-2281
Stray or feral cats Stanford Cat Network: 650-566-8287

Stanford's Integrated Pest Management Program

About Crane Pest Control

Crane Pest Control has designed and continues to manage the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program protecting the Stanford University campus. Although the technical protocols are proprietary, the spirit and intent is a marriage between rational, medical and biological science and society's progressive environmental values and concerns.

Crane's field staff assigned full time to the campus are well schooled and disciplined in preventing pest invasions as an essential ingredient to good environmental health. Bob Larrieu and Rich Skalski both have college degrees in pest management and entomology and serve on Crane's faculty, training both new and veteran technicians. The remaining technicians with specific assignments, day and night, are veteran licensed pest management professionals. The account executive and major contributor to the design of service protocols is Ray Busley, Vice President, in his 28th year with Crane.

What Integrated Pest Management Means for Stanford

Integrated pest management involves maintaining the environment according to three key principles:

  • Balance
  • Weighing risks versus benefits
  • Honoring Nature while protecting human health

Students, faculty and visitors must be protected from injury and disease associated with not only defined pest animals but occasionally from other forms of animal life that inhabit the populated areas of the campus grounds. Wherever feasible this human security should be accomplished by preventive measures rather than after-the-fact means, and any preventive or corrective treatments should use agents that possess the least potential toxicity for the degree of immediacy mandated for human health.

Field work consists of:

  • Inspections
  • Physical modifications of the environment
  • Reinforcing structural integrity
  • Consultations with campus Safety, Grounds, Security, Personnel and University officials
  • Teaching and being taught
  • When necessary, application of liquid or powdered pesticides, injecting pastes and solid baits, and setting various electronic and mechanical traps.

 

If you need additional information or have questions, please contact Ted Tucholski at 723-3383, theodore.tucholski@stanford.edu

 

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