Recent rains are helping a pest breed in South Australia and causing an expensive fight for farmers. Landholders on Yorke Peninsula are bracing for a bad snail season, as the molluscs breed and spread. Four types of snails cause headaches for grain farmers …
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They found their target in a gene called distal-less, already known to play a role in appendage growth in water striders and other . By using a technique to “knock out” the gene, the researchers were able to create water striders with …
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LITTLE ROCK, Ar (KTHV) — The FDA’s regulations concerning “foreign objects” in some of your favorite foods may surprise you. parts and rodent hairs may not be something you think about when you purchase your groceries or make your dinner, but Yahoo!
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NB's largest bat population wiped out, scientists say
CBC.ca Researchers say the decimation of North American bats, who act as a natural pest control, could be costly to the food industry.Researchers say the decimation of North American bats, who act as a natural pest control, could be costly to the food … |
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Pest & Disease Management – Beech bark disease
Horticulture Week Even when this does not directly kill the tree, it can make it susceptible to attack by a wide range of secondary pests and pathogens. This is likely to render specimens unsafe in public places, even before they are killed by the initial beech bark … |
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Maine to hang purple traps to find invasive insect
Wausau Daily Herald The Maine Forest Service said Thursday it is hanging more than 900 of the boxes across the state to trap emerald ash borers, invasive insects from Asia that can devastate local tree populations. The bugs are attracted to the color and scent of the trap … |
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QUESTION:
I have been getting a lot of clothes moth calls lately. One home has pheromone traps in the closets and attic and the second floor closets captured many moths, but in the attic the traps were full. No clothing, rugs, or material products were stored there. The insulation was the fiber insulation as opposed to blown in. Why would the moths be in an attic? In one trap alone there were more moths than all the traps below combined.
For what possible reason could they be there?
ANSWER:
Since you were using pheromone traps for clothes moths then it’s a good assumption that what you were capturing is, indeed, clothes moths, and large numbers of them indoors definitely tells us there is an indoor source that they are breeding in. Clothes moths (casemaking and webbing) also have a couple of nearby relatives called the Household Casebearer and the Plaster Bagworm, and even though both of these are in different genera than the two common species that we call clothes moths, I suppose it would be possible for them to be drawn to the pheromones as well. Probably not overly likely though.
Pest QuestionsMay 04, 2012
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Scientists working in the Simpson Desert in far west Queensland say an explosion in feral animal numbers is threatening native mammals. A team from the University of Sydney has been studying the desert ecosystems for the past 20 years and has just returned …
Pests in the NewsMay 03, 2012
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To help the residents, BedBugBully.com suggested the use of a pesticide-exempt bed bug spray to prevent the farther spread of the . In Sioux Falls in South Dakota, bed bugs were discovered invading the backpacks of the students, said a report from …
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The 24-year-old Shelomi’s answer was one of many posted, but his was the first by an entomologist. He answered dispassionately that don’t have the same capacity to feel pain and suffering as do humans, or even lab mice. “Even if …
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