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The federal government’s National Climate Assessment says that climate change will unleash heat waves that make Chicago feel like Las Vegas, bring disease-carrying mosquitoes to Florida year-round, warm… Source: NBC 7 San Diego

MidAmerican Energy says about 1,400 customers were without power for about an hour on Tuesday afternoon. Source: KCAU

The microorganisms that cause malaria, leishmaniasis and a variety of other illnesses today can be traced back at least to the time of dinosaurs, a study of amber-preserved blood-sucking insects and ticks show. Source: ScienceDaily

And what even is a daddy longlegs? In different parts of the country it could be a harvestman, a crane fly, or a cellar spider. Source: Bay Nature

This popular chain restaurant reportedly served a cockroach in some French onion soup and the diner wanted the police to know. Source: r20.rs6.net

Scientists documented the fancy footwork that helps some cockroaches fend off a wasp’s paralyzing sting. Source: r20.rs6.net

Downtown Roanoke ground to a near halt Monday morning. To the extent business, government and justice moved ahead, it was by feeling along in the dark. Source: Roanoke Times

Black widows that have adapted to the warm concrete of Phoenix are very different from their cousins in the desert, ASU scientists are finding. Source: Phoenix New Times

The disease is now widespread among rodents in New Orleans, posing an increased public health risk of rat lungworm disease to people in the area. Source: ContagionLive

A salad bar in the Rockefeller Center says the building’s underground concourse — home to many eateries — struggles with rodents and is prone to mice. Source: NBC New York