and illegal to retain vegetation infested with whiteflies or other exotic . The ordinance would take effect immediately. The town’s code compliance staff and Code Enforcement Board would be charged with enforcing the ordinance. Violators would …
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(The Wall Street Journal) – Brian Biggins’ life stinks. The Maryland organic farmer’s land is suffering from an infestation of stink bugs — crop-consuming emitting the odor of cilantro mixed with burned rubber and dirty socks. They began …
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QUESTION:
What are your suggestions for bees at the bars in hotels? How can we keep them from biting the employees or guests?
ANSWER:
You are in the West Indies, which is one reason you are still having bee issues in January, although just a couple of weeks ago I visited a relative in Arizona at about 4000 feet elevation, and even with the frigid nights the daytime temperatures reached the high 50’s one day and honeybees were nearly swarming around a garbage can filled with soda cans and other sugary temptations. It managed to get just warm enough to activate the bees, which do not hibernate during the winter, so when they have the opportunity to forage to replenish the energy they are using they go for it.
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Recent GRDC-funded field trials of the nematode-based on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula, where snails are a major , have been declared a success, enabling scientists to progress with more refined field trials to be conducted this year in …
Pests in the NewsJanuary 11, 2012
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Operators are also required to protect food by covering or keeping it in such a way that the food is inaccessible to birds and other . NEA and the town councils have also been culling crows where they have been found to be a nuisance …
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The spread of the beetles is fueled by global warming (they thrive in warm temperatures), and unless invasive wasps step up their game and eat more of the , the problem will only get worse. The silver lining of the epidemic is the availability of wood …
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The study shows that the ladybird beetle was successful in stemming the spread of the woolly adelgid but the predator beetle must be released in the upper crown of trees where the are more abundant. Up to this point, beetle releases have …
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Georgetown Animal Shelter offers free barn cats as pest control
KVUE These cats are not meant to be house pets but can live happily outdoors and are good for pest control. If you take home one of these pets, officials say it's best to keep them confined to a barn area for a couple of weeks until they get used to it and … Cats Need Second Chance on Farm or RanchCity of Georgetown Texas |
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Scientists release wasps to control citrus pest
Los Angeles Times The wasps had been used as beneficial insects in Florida and abroad but never in California. “If someone has curry leaf and are in the LA area, we'd be interested in looking at their plants and maybe using them for our parasite release,” said Hoddle, … |
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Tenants at the Yellow Bird House apartments in the city’s south end are facing another bedbug infestation after living through it last summer. Alberta Health Services (AHS), which issued a pest- control order there last summer, had an inspector on site again Monday, but that’s cold comfort for some frazzled residents. “We don’t know what to do. We’ve thrown out $700 worth of beds and have 15 …
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