Hulett Blog
12-03-2018
Keeping Rats Out This WinterIt's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and with the cooler temps, rodents are looking for a place to settle down for a long winter's nap. Your warm and cozy home, brimming with holiday goodies, not to mention the out-of-the-way, wall voids and...
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11-19-2018
Venomous Puss Caterpillar Returns, Florida Officials WarnTwice yearly, South Florida residents bear witness to puss caterpillar season, as do people in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the southeast and Texas. The larval form of the southern flannel moth has been spotted in the Tampa Bay area; this has prompted...
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11-01-2018
Revealing the Truth Behind Four Pest Removal MythsSince the beginning of households, household pests have been attracted to places where people eat, drink and stay warm. It's simple. People + home = food, water, and shelter for bugs. Rodents have coexisted alongside humans so long that Norway rats...
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10-18-2018
Recent Discovery: Female Termites Who Don't Need Males to ReproduceOn September 24, 2018, media outlets reported the discovery of the first known naturally-occurring all female termite colonies in remote coastal areas of southern Japan. Published in the journal, BMC Biology, University of Sydney's School of Life...
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10-10-2018
How Moths Can Ruin Your First Sweater Weather DayWith the fall season upon us, it may be time to break out your sweaters. You look forward to the change in the seasons but what's this? Holes in your favorite sweaters? How could this be? Well, most likely clothes moths laid their eggs on your...
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10-01-2018
DIY Bug Costumes for HalloweenIt's almost here, that one night a year when kids and adults alike dress up in silly, funny or scary costumes and wander the streets in search of candy and other more sinister types readily give kids enough candy to last a year. Yes, Halloween's...
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09-05-2018
Hide and Go Seek, Cockroach StyleWhile spiders can terrify some people, cockroaches illicit a more basic survival response in humans - like scream, shutter, conquer and destroy. However, as most Florida homeowners know, it's just not that easy to get rid of these persistent,...
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08-27-2018
Lyme Disease from Ticks Shows Dramatic Growth in all 50 StatesEarlier this May, the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) study, published in Vital Signs revealed that reports of vector-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and West Nile had tripled from 2004 to 2016. Now, in August,...
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08-16-2018
New Mosquito Virus: UF Researchers Closely Monitoring Mayaro VirusIf mosquitoes had read the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) May report, they would have been proud of the dramatic increase in the reporting of vector-borne diseases from 2004 to 2016. Unfortunately for us humans, new mosquito viruses that may...
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07-23-2018
Wasp News: New Species Found in the Amazon Has Very Large StingerMove over Tarantula hawk wasps, you too jewel wasps, your status on the top 10 list of scary insects is being challenged. On July 6, United Press International (UPI) reported that a group of Finnish researchers have discovered several new Amazonian...
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