Smithsonian Magazine7d
On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
New York Post17d
‘Gross’ moth invasion wreaks havoc on forests — and property values: ‘A very bad effect’
Tim's insects – stock.adobe.com The insect plague “could have a very bad effect” on California’s millions of acres of oak forest, study author Greg Dwyer, who teaches ecology and evolution ...
Hosted on MSN1d
Scientists may have just saved the citrus industry — and kept your grocery bill from skyrocketing
This breakthrough is being called “one of the most promising discoveries to date." Scientists may have just saved the citrus ...
The Scientist9y
NYC Rats Harbor Plague Fleas
A team of entomologists, virologists, and immunologists trapped 133 Norway rats in Manhattan over a 10-month period and recorded the insects, arachnids ... which can cause disease in humans, but they ...
Nature2y
Pasteur and insect pathogens
A recent biography of Pasteur (shown to the right) outlines his contributions to understanding and preventing insect disease. His efforts from 1865 to 1870 led to the discovery that the disease ...
Mid-July crop insect and disease update
Potato leafhopper insects are currently being identified in area alfalfa fields at high enough numbers to justify insecticide treatment based on the level of leafhoppers per sweep as indicated ...
Rise in tick-borne diseases as insect spreads across metro (copy)
When Janet Jarnefeld started working as a tick specialist at the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District 28 years ago, deer ticks were all but absent in the southwest metro. “Years ago, it would be ...