Posted on July 13, 2017 by rhallberg
From Insects in the City
by Michael Merchant, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Are you looking for pest control training using a practical approach? Do you have a new employee that you’d like to provide with some of the best training available? Then you might be interested in the three new hands-on classes being offered this summer through the new IPM Experience House in Dallas. Here are this summer’s classes with information on how to register: Continue reading →
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Posted on July 11, 2017 by rhallberg
In Southwest Farm Press
Our world is a place full of risk and danger. Every day we hear about numerous threats life and health.
Yet each morning most of us drink our coffee, crank up our engines and hit the road. After all, we must survive, and we carefully throw up barriers to keep us from dwelling on the negatives of life. Continue reading →
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Posted on June 12, 2017 by rhallberg
In PCT Magazine
A University of Florida entomologist is working with other scientists to detect the Zika virus in minutes, rather than days or weeks, allowing for faster and more targeted mosquito control practices and detection in patient samples.
Zika can lead to multiple symptoms in adults, including fever, rash, headache and joint pain. It also can cause microcephaly, a condition that causes infants to be born with a head that’s much smaller than that of a normal baby. Continue reading →
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Posted on June 9, 2017 by rhallberg
WHAT: Binational Forum: Emerging Mosquito-borne Infectious Diseases Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
WHEN: June 13-14, 2017
WHERE: El Paso Marriott, 1600 Airway Blvd, El Paso, Texas Continue reading →
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Posted on May 17, 2017 by rhallberg
by Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky
Mosquitoes are appearing earlier than normal this year. University of Kentucky entomologists encourage Kentuckians to take precautions to prevent mosquito bites on themselves and their pets.
“Mosquitoes breed in standing water. The recent rains we have had, coupled with the upcoming warm weather, may help them get off to a strong start,” said Grayson Brown, entomologist in the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. Continue reading →
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Posted on May 9, 2017 by rhallberg
Southwest Farm Press
by Leilana McKindra, Southwest Farm Press
A wave of dangerous storms that recently rolled through the state brought large amounts rain and snow, and may have sparked a rise in the population of giant pests known as floodwater mosquitoes.
Common in Oklahoma, floodwater mosquitoes, sometimes called gallinippers, can grow up to six times larger than common mosquitoes. Continue reading →
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Posted on April 7, 2017 by rhallberg
As the state prepares for additional local transmission of the Zika virus during the 2017 mosquito season, the Texas Department of State Health Services is expanding its testing guidance for residents of six South Texas counties.
DSHS Monday issued a health alert that now recommends testing all pregnant residents of Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Webb, Willacy and Zapata counties in both the first and second trimesters of pregnancy and any resident who has a rash plus at least one other common Zika symptom: fever, joint pain or eye redness. Continue reading →
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