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Get our free mobile app According to a U.S. Department of Food Safety and and Inspection Service (FSIS) announcement, they were notified of two people sick with listeriosis on June 9, 2021. FSIS worked with the CDC and state public health partners and determined there is evidence linking the illnesses to precooked chicken produced at Tyson Foods: The epidemiologic investigation identified three listeriosis illnesses, including one death, between April 6, 2021 and June 5, 2021. Recalled items i...

Get Ready for the Mosquitoes If April showers bring May flowers, what do June showers bring? Lots of mosquitoes! So far this summer, with the dry weather conditions, the mosquitoes havent been too bad. That will probably chance dramatically in the next couple of weeks. Mosquitoes need standing water to breed. With our drought-like conditions, there hasnt been a lot of standing water for them. However, with lots of rain over the last couple of days and for most of this week, they will now have ...

Get the DEET out. It's going to be a long, tick-filled summer.

After 17 years underground, Brood X Cicadas are emerging this month in Michigan and in 15 other states. Like something from a Grateful Dead concert or a scene from Night of the Living Dead these bugs are under the influence of mind controlling drugs and it's making their butts fall off!

Like moths to a flame, spotted lanternflies are visually drawn toward and seemingly captivated by vertical objects such as utility poles, a behavior that could be valuable in predicting where the pests might be heading, according to entomologists in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. Research from the laboratory of Tom Baker, recently published in the Journal of Insect Behavior, is laying the foundation for future strategies to monitor and possibly trap the invasive insect from...

The Ag Department says its efforts are working to slow the spread of the sap-drinking pest. “Last spring we quarantined 12 counties with isolated infestations, and those counties have not been overrun because of the heightened awareness a quarantine brings,” said Ruth Welliver, director of the department’s Bureau of Plant Industry. “With continued aggressive treatment and monitoring, and an actively engaged community, we can help ensure families and businesses in these ne...

Michiganders Spent $341 Million on Recreational Marijuana In 2020 Michiganders definitely took advantage of recreational marijuana during the pandemic and throughout 2020. The state reported a combined sales of $341 million in recreational marijuana sales for 2020 and that number is just a preview of what sales could be in the coming years. Marijuana was officially legal on December 1, 2019, but it was months before local governments approved the sale of recreational marijuana and then ever mor...

Newaygo High School students were sent home Monday after an explosion in a classroom in which six were injured.

West Michigan Man Accused of Killing Puppy with Chainsaw A 22-year-old Calhoun County man has been charged with allegedly killing a 5-month-old puppy with a chainsaw. The Battle Creek Enquirer reports the Erik Paul Taylor is accused of killing his sister-in-laws Black Labrador/Treeing Walker Coonhound mix puppy, Luna. Police were called to the 3900 block of 3 1/2 Mile Road in Athens Township on January 23. Melody Taylor told police that her brother-in-law had admitted to killing the dog and s...

Lantern Fly Eggs 8.jpg Naturalist Lisa Sanchez speaks with Lancastrians before leading them on a hike to look for and scrape the spotted lantern fly egg masses at Speedwell Forge County Park on Sunday, January 24, 2021. Lisa shows the stick and paint scraper that she likes to use to enable her to reach some of the higher masses on trees. Suzette Wenger Lantern Fly Eggs 9.jpg Naturalist Lisa Sanchez, left, shows George Kernisky of Rapho Township, an egg mass as sh...