A small team. Big results.

Six field technicians, two office coordinators, one entomologist — and 12,400 happy homes across the Lowcountry.

The story

2008 to today — still growing slowly on purpose.

Dr. Imogen Carrière trained in urban entomology at the University of Florida and ran the IPM program at the Telfair Museums for six years before opening Aegis in 2008. The brief was simple: serve the kind of property where conventional pest control wouldn't be welcome.

Eighteen years later we have six field technicians, an office coordinator who tracks every monitoring station in the system, an apprentice in her third year of Associate Certified Entomologist coursework, and a 340-property book of business that turned over only 8% last year.

The firm has never run a TV ad. We don't pay for placement on "best of" lists. Most clients arrive by referral from a preservation architect, a museum colleague, or the neighbor across the square. The pace of growth is approximately one new heritage client per quarter — and we're happy with that rate.

The crew

Six trained technicians.

Each completes the QualityPro certification within their first two years and pursues ACE (Associate Certified Entomologist) by year five.

Dr. Imogen Carrière

Founder · ACE · Ph.D. Entomology

Twenty-five years in urban entomology. Previously program lead at Telfair Museums. Holds the firm's GA SP license #SP-7842.

Marcus Okafor

Field Lead · ACE · QualityPro

Eleven years with Aegis. Runs heritage program scheduling and lead-tech rotation. Specializes in Anobiidae remediation in furniture.

Jamila Torres

Commercial Lead · QualityPro · IPM Specialist

Eight years field experience. Manages all hospitality and food-service accounts. Bedbug canine handler certified.

How we work

Monitoring first. Chemistry last.

Integrated Pest Management isn't a marketing term — it's a published EPA framework that orders interventions from least-impact to most-impact. We follow that order.

Monitoring

Pheromone traps, visual inspection, moisture mapping. Establishes baseline pressure and identifies harborage before anything else happens.

Sanitation

Trash management, moisture reduction, vegetation pull-back. Removes the conditions pests depend on — no chemistry required.

Exclusion

Hardware cloth, foam, snap traps, one-way devices. Physical barriers stop incoming pests at the door.

Biological

Beneficial nematodes, biopesticides (BT, spinosad). Target-species controls with limited off-target impact.

Targeted chemistry

Lowest-toxicity material that resolves the issue, applied to the smallest possible area. Never blanket sprays.

Documentation

Every visit produces a record — what was checked, captured, photographed, recommended. Year-over-year trend data on request.

What we won't do

✕ Prophylactic perimeter sprays without confirmed pressure
✕ Bug bombs / total-release foggers
✕ Routine fipronil applications without an active colony
✕ Carbamate or organophosphate use in residential settings
✕ Rodenticide blocks in residential interiors
✕ Chemical baseboard sprays in food-service kitchens

What we will do

✓ Tell you the program isn't working when it isn't
✓ Refer to a structural engineer when damage exceeds our scope
✓ Decline a job we can't do well
✓ Walk every product label with you before it's applied
✓ Honor every visit-recall and refund clause in writing
✓ Show up on time, in uniform, with a smile

Credentials

The paperwork, in case it helps.

Certificates of insurance, license verification, and references available on request.

GA Structural Pest License	#SP-7842 — held by Carrière Preservation Services, LLC dba Aegis Pest Busters
Principal entomologist	Dr. Imogen Carrière, Ph.D. Entomology (UF, 2006), Associate Certified Entomologist (ACE)
Industry certifications	QualityPro · GreenPro · GreenShield · IPM Institute
EPA Worker Protection Standard	All field technicians WPS-certified and current
General liability	$2,000,000 per occurrence — Cincinnati Insurance
Pesticide liability	$1,000,000 aggregate
Workers' compensation	State of GA Workers' Comp in force
Affiliations	NPMA · GPCA · Historic Savannah Foundation

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