read the PCT article).The infestation was confirmed by
University of California-Riverside Professor of Entomology Dr. Chow-Yang Lee. Lee, along with co-authors Shu-Ping Tseng and Dong-Hwan Choe, recently had these findings published in the
The Formosan subterranean termite,
Coptotermes formosanus, is one of the world’s most invasive termite pest species (Rust and Su 2012, Global Invasive Species Database 2021). Believed to be originated from southern China and Taiwan, this species has dispersed to other parts of the world, including the United States. Some of the earliest records of the Formosan subterranean termite in the US were in Oahu (Hawaii) in 1907, Charleston (SC) in 1957, and New Orleans (LA) in 1966. It has now been established in at least 11 states, including Hawaii, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi.
Jason and Lowell Boone, Better Off Dead Services (B.O.D.S.), discovered a Formosan subterranean termite infestation in a Canyon Lake (Riverside County, Calif.) home, in June 2020. The infestation was confirmed by University of California-Riverside’s entomology department.
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Due to their complexity and microscopic scale, plant-microbe interactions can be quite elusive. Each researcher focuses on a piece of the interaction, and it is hard to find all the pieces let alone assemble them into a comprehensive map to find the hidden treasures within the plant microbiome. This is the purpose of review, to take all the pieces from all the different sources and put them together into something comprehensive that can guide researchers to hidden clues and new associations that unlock the secrets of a system. Like any good treasure map, there are still gaps in the knowledge and the searcher must be clever enough to fill in those gaps to find the X . Without a map, there is only aimless wandering, but with a map, there is hope of finding the hi
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This story is from the Anamnesis episode called Eureka and starts at 16:00 on the podcast. It s from Scott Zeller, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Riverside.
Following is a transcript of his remarks:
Scott Zeller, MD: I was relatively new as the medical director of a large psychiatric ER in California, and we had a lot of very high-acuity individuals with psychiatric emergencies being brought in by police or by police and the ambulances right off the urban streets. They were very high acuity, and they were often brought in physically restrained to gurneys. These were people who might have been out in the community screaming, running in traffic, being violent, combative, problems at home, destructive of property