Page 55 - Pests News Today

Pests are a growing problem in the U.S. With over 40,000 people being hospitalized for rodent and insect bites each year, and insect stings causing about 90 deaths. The pest control business is expected to make over 17 billion dollars in revenue this year. But don’t fret. We have some tips and tricks to keep those pests out of your house and your money in your wallet.

On Oct. 11, the resident found five large grubs (larvae) in a decaying palm tree stump on the property and reported it to the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Response Project. Staff from the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture responded to the site and collected the specimens which were sent to a University of Hawai‘i laboratory in Honolulu where a DNA-based test was used to identify the grubs as coconut rhinoceros beetles.

Bedbugs are parasitic insects that feed on blood and are mostly active in the dark at night.

I have discovered a new weed to hate in my yard. Although its scientific name is Galium aparine (Latin for “to seize”), I prefer its more descriptive common names: sticky weed, cleavers, stickywilly, robin-run-the hedge, Velcro weed, goosegrass, or catchweed bedstraw.

Global warming is causing insects to be active longer and reproduce more, multiplying species that had been cornered in the past

Vicious cycle of scratching is caused by sensory neurons and skin immune cells working together to promote itching and skin inflammation

Telegraph readers debate this week’s hot topics – from the Hamas attacks on Israel to the Labour Party conference

Staff believe the network should bin the upholstery in a bid to to banish the bugs and replace it with this material.

But they say reports of Paris infestation driving local epidemic is a ‘red herring’ created by social media

A bedroom is often a safe haven for many, a place to relax at the end of the day, but with an increase in bed bug cases, Britons are being warned to look for the signs they have an infestation.