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 ...
Hosted on MSN29d
Health officials raise serious concerns after growing outbreak of dangerous insect-borne disease — here's what you need to know
As the weather gets warmer, mosquitoes and other insects are active for longer periods during the year, allowing them to spread more disease. There have been new cases of diseases like West Nile ...
New York Post18d
‘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 ...
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 ...