Monthly Archives: December 2012

Bed Bugs Unfazed By Ultrasonic Devices, Researchers Report

Bed Bugs Unfazed By Ultrasonic Devices, Researchers Report Northern Arizona researchers Kasey Yturralde and Richard W. Hofstetter tested four different products, none of which successfully drove away bed bugs. With bed bugs bunking just about everywhere these days, people battling … Continue reading

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INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PROGRAM KEY TO SUCCESSFUL PEST CONTROL

INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PROGRAM KEY TO SUCCESSFUL PEST CONTROL Hulett Environmental discusses the importance of creating an integrated pest management (IPM) program IPM is a process involving common sense methods and environmentally friendly solutions for controlling pests. The approach incorporates … Continue reading

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Top Five Pest Stories of 2012

Top Five Pest Stories of 2012 From the West Nile virus and Yosemite Hantavirus outbreaks to Lyme disease and the plague, it could be argued that 2012 was the year of pest-related infectious diseases. But, there were also some weird … Continue reading

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Happy Holidays!

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Your Christmas tree may harbor up to 25,000 ‘freeloading’ insects: scientist

Your Christmas tree may harbor up to 25,000 ‘freeloading’ insects: scientist Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” Er, not quite. Get a magnifying glass and take a … Continue reading

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Winter Pest Q & A

Will pest infestations this winter be worse than most winters? Pests need food, water, and shelter, just like humans. If conditions are good for any of these, a population will thrive. If all three are available, populations will explode. As … Continue reading

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Termites?

This is so funny!

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Ensifera insect group

The hearing system of the Ensifera insect group continues to surprise. Though mammals and insects have been evolving separately for a long time (and of course, they’re a much older group than us), a study in November found that how … Continue reading

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The Assassin bug

Photo: rizalis/Flickr Meet the world’s most gruesome killer. The assassin bug proudly displays the exoskeleton of its kills (after it sucked out the innards as dinner) on its back! But there’s logic to that macabre madness: … the assassin bug’s … Continue reading

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Happy Friday!

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