Pests

Why Are Lovebugs Flying Around My Car?

Mark Hostetler | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Cars, Insects, Pests, Automobiles, Highways, Bugs, Flies, Weird Science, Lovebugs, Weird News News

If you live in Florida or in the Southeast, you are currently being inundated by swarms of lovebugs flying around your vehicle. You may be thinking, "Do these critters have a death wish?" Well, there is a reason for everything.

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Food Safety and Terrorism

Matthew Edlund, M.D. | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Pesticides, War on Terrorism, Monoculture, Corn, Stephen Hatfill, Terrorism, Health, 9/11, Genetically Modified Food, Pests, Soybeans, Food Safety, Anthrax, Green News

Welcome to the wacky, dysfunctional world of the "war on terrorism" -- American division -- post 9/11 -- where inaction on food safety could threaten both the economy and our security.

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The Problem With Shifting Scientists From Invasive Species To Anti-Terrorism

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Video, Homeland Security, Invasive Species 9/11, Health, Invasive Species, Environment, Food Supply, Invasive Species Homeland Security, Pests, 9/11 Invasive Species, Invasive Species US, Green News

FRESNO, Calif. — Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after 9/11, when authoritie...

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Dangerous Beetle Intercepted At O'Hare

Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Khapra Beetle, Creepy Crawlers, Bugs, Beetle Infestation, O'Hare Airport, Pests, Customs and Border Protection, Infestation, Chicago News

A beetle ranked among "one of the top 100 most feared pests in the world" was recently found in a bag of rice and intercepted at the O'Hare Airport be...

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Battling Agricultural Pests With Natural Weapons

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Pesticides, Crops, Invasive Species, Sustainable Agriculture, Light-Brown-Apple-Moth, Pests, Wasps, Monsanto, San Francisco News

The 15 million wasp eggs scattered across neighborhoods in Sacramento and San Luis Obispo counties represent a rare return to historical methods of pe...

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The Good Side of Bad Breath

David Mizejewski | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Animal Oddities, Evolution, Pests, Animal Planet, Gardening, Aphids, Green News

Before you reach for pesticides at the first sight of an insect pest in your garden, you might try breathing on it first and see what happens.

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Invasion of the Stink Bugs

David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Doug Inkley, Stink Bugs, Insects, Pests, Green News

The brown marmorated stink bug, accidentally introduced to North America a decade ago, has spread like wildfire, becoming a new agricultural pest and invading people's homes, where they spend the winter dormant.

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Uninvited Pest Crashes Dinner At Jean-Georges

nytimes.com | SAM SIFTON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jean Georges, Bugs, Restaurants, Roachs, Food, NY Restaurants, Pests, Four Star Restaurants, New York News

Until the scream punctured the air at roughly 9 p.m., patrons and executives of the restaurant said, Monday night was quiet and glittery as usual at J...

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Rats & Land Mines: Colombia Teaches Rodents To Sniff Out Explosives

The Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South America, Columbia Army, Columbia Farc, Mine Field, Bombs, Columbia, Exterminators, Pests, Rats, Farc, Land Mines, Animals, Service Animals, Land Mine Removal, Rodents, Green News

Early next year, anti-narcotics police will begin deploying squads of rats to sniff out land mines in remote areas of Colombia where leftist rebels an...

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dengue Fever, Biotech Agriculture, Sleeping Sickness, Biotechnology, GM Insects, Malaria, Genetically Modified Food, Socio-Economics, Genetics, Biotech, Gmo, Dna, Latin America, Arizona Experiment, Gm Technology, Risk Management, Arizona, Black Swan, Green Living, Canada, Genes, Health, Africa, Black Swan Event, Asia, Europe, US, Health Care, Risk, Monsanto, Dupont, Bayer, Pectinophora Gossypiella, Pink Bollworms, Dow, Basf, Syngenta, Aventis, Genetic Engineering, Big Pharma, Unintended Consequences, Transgenic, Chagas, Unknown Unknowns, Pharmaceutical Proteins, Uncertainty, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Organic Food, Food Safety, Food, Honeybees, Ecosystems, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Animal Rights, Regulatory Framework, Agriculture, Regulators, Animals, Insects, Rural Communities, Deepwater Drilling, Pesticides, National, Pests, Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon, Public Health, Insect-Pests, Domestic, GM Crops, International, Food News, Agribusiness, Eu, India, United Nations, Climate, Global Warming, The Balanced Life, Frankenfood, Genetically Modified Organisms, Peta, Green News

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....

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nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Pests, Bedbug Hungters, Bedbugs New York, Pests, Bedbugs, Bedbug Detection, New York News, New York News

CRUISER made four house calls on a recent rain-soaked Tuesday. There were two happy endings and two unhappy ones, a fairly typical outcome for a typic...

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Mice Infest UK Parliament: House Of Lords Considers Cats For Westminster Palace

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Mice, Poison, Cats, Westminster Palace, Parliament, Federal Government, England, Pests, Traps, Mouse, London, Pest Control, House of Lords, World News

LONDON — The House of Lords has a momentous decision to make: Should it get cats to chase the mice that have infested one of Britain's most famo...

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5 Humane Ways To Catch Mice

Mother Nature Network | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: How to Catch Mice, Mice, How Get Rid of Mice, Pests, Animas, Mice Catchers, Rodents, Green News

However effective, sending them the way of a rodent guillotine of glue trap isn't for everyone, particularly animal lovers and the easily grossed out....

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Farmer Kills 83,000 Rats And Wins Color TV

Telegraph | Ben Leach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, South East Asia, Crops, Agriculture, Farmers, Food, Pests, Rats, Ministry of Agriculture, Green News

Mokhairul Islam, 40, won a first prize of a colour television for killing some 83,450 rats in the past nine months in Gazipur district near the South ...

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Roaches On Buses Causing Pesty Problem

am New York | Heather Haddon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roaches on Bus, Nyc Buses, Nyc Bus, Roaches, Pests, Nyc Pests, Cockroaches, Ny Buses, New York News

It's a cockroach's paradise: a warm nook with fresh food and freedom to roam. But to the disgust of many commuters, this roach motel is the city bus....

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Shock And Caw: Pesky Starlings Sill Overwhelm

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birds, Starlings, Starling Flocks, Pests, North America, Bird Strikes, Most Hated Bird, Shakespeare, Poison, Green News

SALT LAKE CITY — The next time the sky darkens with a flock of noisy unwelcome starlings, blame Shakespeare – or, better yet, a few of his...

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Four Organic Ways to Kill Ants

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ants, Pests, Household Hazardous Waste, Sustainable Mosquito Repellant, Green News

Before you embark on a killing spree, here are a couple tips for eliminating ants without killing the earth too.

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