Technically, it’s possible that I’m throwing the same stink bug out of the house over and over again this winter. Maybe I should place a tracking band on one of Source: Terre Haute Tribune-Star
Landlord Ignores Rat Complaints, Tenant Ends Up With Five Years Of Hell (via r20.rs6.net)
Rats are nasty pests that no one wants to live with, and they’re nothing to ignore, as CBS 2âs Dorothy Tucker shows in this investigation. Source: r20.rs6.net
Rat invasion vexes staff at historic Los Angeles City Hall (via ABC News)
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There is A Decline In The Honeybee Population. A UMD Researcher Has Found The Cause (via r20.rs6.net)
Over time, the honeybee population has slowly declined. In a bad year, a colony will lose 15 to 20 percent of its population. Source: r20.rs6.net
Homeowners Learn How To Fight Ticks (via r20.rs6.net)
The number of ticks are growing in New York. Source: r20.rs6.net
A New Way to Keep Mosquitoes From Biting (via The Atlantic)
An appetite-suppressing drug makes them act as if theyâve already feasted on blood. Source: The Atlantic
Franklin County starts program to attack West Nile, Lyme (via Waynesboro Record Herald – Waynesboro, PA)
CHAMBERSBURG — By the time the mosquitos begin to bite, Franklin County officials plan to be ready to battle them. The Board of Commissioners and Source: Waynesboro Record Herald – Waynesboro, PA
Putting female mosquitoes on human diet drugs could reduce spread of disease (via ScienceDaily)
Researchers report that they have identified drugs that can reduce mosquito hunger for blood. Because movement of female mosquitoes from human to human — male mosquitoes do not consume blood — is the means by which mosquito-borne infections are passed along, researchers have theorized that reducing the frequency with which female mosquitoes feed is one way to lessen the spread … Read More
New species of widow spider may be the largest of its kind • Earth.com (via Earth.com)
Scientists have discovered a relative of the Black Widow spider that may be the largest of the poisonous widow spiders. Source: Earth.com
Hot pink flying squirrels? Wisconsin biologist shocked to find creatures glow in the dark (via Fox News)
A Wisconsin biologist made an unexpected discovery with an ultraviolet flashlight in hand one crisp spring night: a hot pink flying squirrel. Source: Fox News
