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Plight of the honeybees: Scientists hunt deadly parasite that turns insects …
Daily Mail Scientists are attaching radio sensors to bees in a bid to find out how and when they get attacked by a deadly parasite. The Apocephalus borealis parasite attaches itself to bees, and then forces them to leave their hives, head to the outside world … |
Pests in the NewsSeptember 07, 2012
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Kennebec Journal |
UMaine donates 'priceless' insect collection to Maine State Museum
Kennebec Journal BUGGING OUT: Maine State Museum curator of zoology Paula Work and University of Maine professor Andrei Alyokhin inspect a case of insects included in the collection received Thursday by the Maine State Museum in Augusta from the University of Maine. |
Pests in the NewsSeptember 07, 2012
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Insects collected over a century or more not only tell the state's ecological narrative to the state's entemologists, but provide keen insight into its present.
Pests in the NewsSeptember 07, 2012
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QUESTION:
Dirt mounds are popping up in the yard. Grayish colored, almost BB sized dirt. What would cause this?
ANSWER:
My best guess would be earthworms. While we think of them as subterranean animals they commonly come to the surface to either escape overwatering and saturated soils or to migrate, and I have read that quite often when we find the worms squirming over a sidewalk or driveway it is because they chose to go there in an effort to relocate. Unfortunately, once the sun comes out they don’t do so well.
Pest QuestionsSeptember 07, 2012
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QUESTION:
An industrial client called us about black widows in their paint shop. Upon inspection I found black widows and multiple other species of spiders in the four ventilation ducts. This is a relatively small area where mining equipment is spray painted. I was amazed at the large number of spiders living in paint fumes. I was wondering if you could bat that around a little.
ANSWER:
Sort of like the canary in the mine shaft? Perhaps if the employees at this shop started seeing the spiders dropping dead from the overhead areas it would be a bigger concern that something is amiss in the air they breathe. It is amazing what kinds of conditions spiders and other bugs can tolerate, and not to get overly colorful, but in the past a high percentage of black widow bites were acquired by people sitting on the throne in outhouses, men in particular because of their………ummm………increased exposure. This tidbit brought to you courtesy of a well known spider guru at U.C. Riverside.
Pest QuestionsSeptember 06, 2012
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Each year, the Hancock County Extension office monitors and surveys the movement and populations of new in the county that have potential to cause serious crop damage. For the past several months we have been observing the number of moths captured in …
Pests in the NewsSeptember 05, 2012
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Rats on the genteel brownstone blocks of Brooklyn Heights? Say it ain?t so! King Rat is holding court on the tony residential streets of Brooklyn Heights, warns a haughty crusader who?s hung signs on Hicks St. corners warning residents about rodents …
Pests in the NewsSeptember 05, 2012
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In the summer of 2009, two men from northwest Missouri showed up at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, tucked up against the Kansas border 50 miles north of Kansas City. The men were seriously sick. They had high fevers, fatigue …
Pests in the NewsSeptember 05, 2012
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. ? You think incumbent politicians are hard to get rid of? Try bedbugs. The blood-sucking have made a resurgence in recent years, including reports of them at nine of the hotels being used for Democrats? nominating …
Pests in the NewsSeptember 05, 2012
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Bed Bug Infested Apartment Cleaned Up
KTXL Clark Pest Control says this unit is now rid of bed bugs, but if the owner of the complex doesn't get rid of all the bed bugs in the building, they could move back in. The owners have yet to decide to pay for the whole building to be exterminated, even … |
Pests in the NewsSeptember 05, 2012
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