Central Life Sciences: Stinging Insects
By Doug VanGundy, Senior Director, Research and Development With a large amount of stinging insect infestations each year in the United States, it is imperative that pest management professionals...
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The world’s biggest hornet is wreaking havoc in northwestern China where 42 people have died after being swarmed and stung. More than 1,600 others have been injured from stings since the outbreak began...
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I was about 7 years old when I gave my first pest management advice to my 5-year-old cousin. While near a small stream searching for salamanders, a bumblebee perched itself on the tip of my cousin’s...
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Most Wanted: Bald-Faced Hornet
Bald-faced hornets construct a nest. Photo: Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble Aerially articulate but potentially punitive, bald-faced hornets (Dolichovespula maculate) build abodes that can result in...
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An interview with a bald-faced hornet
(Dolichovespula maculata) Pest Management Professional (PMP): [walks up to a bush where about 3 ft. up is a large, football-shaped nest that appears to be made of grayish paper and several bald-faced...
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Asian hornets attack inspection drone in Jersey
Jersey’s Department for the Environment deployed a heat-seeking DJI drone with cameras to inspect an Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) nest, which authorities and beekeepers had spent months...
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Research reveals impacts of total solar eclipse on bees
PHOTO: ISTOCK.COM/ARLINDO71 You may remember to total solar eclipse in 2017 in North America that everyone was buzzing about? Well, research from the University of Missouri is reporting that bees...
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Web Exclusive: Bee removal by the experts
An Africanized honey bee (left) and a European honey bee on honeycomb. Despite color, they normally can’t be identified by eye. Photo: Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org Many...
View ArticleRockwell Labs expands EcoVia, InVade product lines
Dr. Cisse Spragins shares details about the new InVade Power Dose product. She also talks about two newer aerosol products in the EcoVia line including EcoVia WH and EcoVia CA. (Background image:...
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The silver lining to the Asian giant hornet phenomenon
PHOTO: CERISE HUA/ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS/GETTY IMAGES Recent news of sightings of the Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) in the Pacific Northwest had media outlets “buzzing” with dire...
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