A consumer alert has been issued for an Oakland convenience store due to a roach infestation. Source: r20.rs6.net
Browntail Moth Here to Stay (via The Lincoln County News)
Boothbay Region Land Trust hosted its first lecture of 2019 on browntail moths last week. In spite of the icy roads, members of the public filled the lecture room at Oak Point Farm to hear Maine Fo⦠Source: The Lincoln County News
Bed bugs found in Stone Oak area hotel (via KENS)
The Austin mom said they stayed at this hotel three weeks prior and everything was fine. She said you can’t be too careful. Source: KENS
Tenants at Metairie apartment complex complain of fleas and ticks (via WDSU)
Tenants at Metairie apartment complex complain of fleas and ticks Source: WDSU
Vaccinating Mice May Finally Slow Lyme Disease (via Scientific American)
Killing ticks and inoculating people has failed, so researchers try immunizing mice via vaccine-laced food Source: Scientific American
Survey shows bark beetle outbreaks continued to rise in 2018 (via Montrose Daily Press)
With record-warm temperatures and record-low precipitation, Colorado had increasing numbers of bark, pine, spruce and native bark beetle outbreaks in 2018, according to a new survey. Source: Montrose Daily Press
When your car becomes housing for the resident mice (via Bangor Daily News)
There has been a bit of a mouse population boom on Rusty Metal Farm this past year. Source: Bangor Daily News
Thurmont Elementary may have bedbugs (via The Frederick News-Post )
Principal Debra O’Donnell announced incidence of possible bedbugs in Thurmont Elementary School on Friday. The school will be professionally assessed on Monday, but students are expected to continue to attend Source: The Frederick News-Post
UA researchers Seeking to create mosquito birth control to curb tropical diseases (via Arizona Daily Star)
Researchers studying how targeting certain gene will disrupt mosquitoes ability to produce viable eggs. Source: Arizona Daily Star
Ebola virus found in bat in West Africa for the first time, scientists say (via Fox News)
The Ebola virus has been found in a bat in Liberia, the country’s government and scientists with Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health announced this week. Source: Fox News
