Last week’s single-digit temperatures might have lulled many Upper Cape residents into a false sense of security about the level of risk they face from disease-carrying ticks. Source: CapeNews.net
Mark Bennett: Stink bugs will keep Hoosiers company for winters to come (via Terre Haute Tribune-Star)
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
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
Rogers County Courthouse reopens after bed bug scare (via KOKI)
Officials said they are confident there are no longer bed bugs inside the courthouse. Source: KOKI
