Coffee senna hasn’t hit the national farm news yet as the latest “worst weed,” but on July 26—the same day that the members of the team that maintains the Mississippi Crop Situation Blog were receiving an award for their outreach—coffee senna was receiving special attention as well: it was the “Weed of the Week” on the Mississippi blog.
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If you’re battling infestations of bed bugs, you may think you’re saving money with do-it-yourself bug bombs, but you may actually making the problem worse. According to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of Economic Entomology, total-release foggers, otherwise known as bug bombs, are ineffective at killing bed bugs and fleas and can actually increase the number of cockroaches in your home.
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