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Buying Grapes? Watch Out for Black Widow Spiders
Photo credit: casch52/Foter/CC BY-NC-ND Next time you buy grapes at the grocery store, you might want to check for black widow spiders before grabbing your snack. A woman in Colchester, Vt., was bitten...
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Beehive Remover in India Demonstrates Unique Technique
Photo: YouTube What equipment do you use to remove a beehive? A stockpot, a shopping bag, a knife and burning branches? Check out a beehive remover in India who uses all of the above – and no...
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Gypsy Moth Behavior Influences Drone’s Design
Photo credit: shutterbusterbob/Foter/CC BY-NC-SA They way in which male gypsy moths behave to mate with female gypsy moths is helping researchers create more effective drones, according to a Business...
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Bees Go for a Car Ride, Driver Gets Ticket
Photo: Montana Highway Patrol Turns out taking your bees for a ride in the car is not illegal if you live in Montana. Driving all over the road because the bees are out of control will earn you a...
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Lady Beetles Let Loose in High School as Part of Senior Prank
Photo credit: Thomas Hawk/Foter/CC BY-NC Students at a high school in Maryland pulled a senior prank that really bugged teachers. Approximately 72,000 lady beetles were let loose in Chopticon High...
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Monument Erected to ‘Console the Souls’ of Dead Insects
The Sanmon main gate at Kenchoji, the oldest of Kamakura’s five Zen temples (it was founded in 1253). Photo credit: Bri74/Foter/CC BY-NCA monument to the insects people have killed now stands at...
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How Bee Beards Come to Be, In Case You Want to Try This at Home
Link gets a bee beard from beekeeper Bill as Rhett stands by, watching. Photo: YouTube Bee beards. Ever wonder how? Rhett James McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln “Link” Neal, “Internetainers” known as...
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FDA: Pest Parts, Not Pesticides, Acceptable in Food Supply
Photo credit: Big Fat Rat / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND As a pest management professional, you probably don’t consider insects and rodents creepy. After all, you’ve seen your share of phorid flies, black widow...
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So Called ‘Snake House’ Freak Occurrence, Experts Say
Photo credit: Vicki’s Nature/Foter/CC BY-NC-ND Did you hear about the Maryland family who moved into their dream home only to discover it was infested with black rat snakes? If you missed it, proceed...
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Hidden Camera Captures Unexpected Pests
Photo: Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority Are hidden cameras among your arsenal of pest management tools? They are in Australia, where the high tech equipment helps biologists determine the...
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Reporter Grapples with Cicadas, Eventually Maintains Composure
Photo: YouTube Good thing cicadas emerge every 17 years. Otherwise, newscasters like Katya Leick would never be able to file on-location reports. While filing a story for KSNT in Topeka, Kan., from...
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Even Giant Insects Need Protection from Predators
Giant tree weta. Photo: YouTube Think you’ve seen some really big bugs in your career as a pest management professional? Unless you work in New Zealand, you haven’t seen the biggest bugs on Earth....
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Texas Rains Lead to Plenty of Jobs for PMPs
Photo credit: Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel/Flickr Looking for extra work? If so, head over to the Texas Panhandle, where insects are multiplying like crazy, thanks to the area’s above-average rainfall this...
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Raccoon Caught Drinking on the Job
If you thought dealing with raccoons getting into your trash was frustrating, try dealing with a raccoon getting into your beer. That is what appears to have happened at the Union Beer Distributors’...
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Honey Bees Give New Meaning to the Term Drug Sting
Photo credit: JKehoe_Photos/Foter/CC BY Drug sniffing dogs may be a thing of the past as honey bees take on the task of finding illicit drugs. That’s right, honey bees. Gizmodo reports that researchers...
View ArticleHear Him Out: Giant Bug Found Hiding in Man’s Ear
There’s nothing quite like a horrifyingly graphic video of a giant bug stuck inside someone’s ear to increase your pest management business. Recently, a video surfaced on Mirror Online of a man having...
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Libraries Bake Books to Eliminate Bed Bugs
Photo credit: Nina J. G./Foter/CC BY-ND Why would a library put its books in an oven? To kill bed bugs, of course. In Pinellas County, Fla., bed bugs hitched a ride in books patrons have returned to...
View ArticleUnlikely Winner In Rodent vs. Reptile Battle
It’s not every day you see a snake go up against a rabbit – and lose. For one protective rabbit, however, attacking and scaring off a snake was an easy feat. A few days ago, YouTube user Ramakanth p...
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Termite Predator Unleashes Killer Farts
Photo credit: cotinis/Foter/CC BY-NC-SA Are your farts so nasty they could kill? That’s a claim the beaded lacewing can make, Wired reports in a post brilliantly titled, “Silent and Deadly: Fatal Farts...
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Government Conducts Research to Keep Fruit Flies Out of the Land Down Under
Photo courtesy of University of Wisconsin-Madison Fruit flies. Although these pests are a helpful reminder to throw away the fruit you meant to eat, they can be annoying and difficult to eliminate...
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