Category Archives: Biting

A mild winter could mean a banner year for fire ants in North Carolina

Staff file photo Fire ant mounds have become a familiar sight across the Cape Fear region.   By Chick Jacobs Staff writer Thirty years ago this spring, a North Carolina agricultural extension agent offered this optimistic prediction: Fire ants would … Continue reading

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10 Most Poisonous Spiders on Earth

Written by Michele Collet   Photo: graftedno1 Whether crawling on eight legs along their webs or scurrying from their dens – ready to pounce and kill anything that they wish to eat – spiders can be the stuff of nightmares. … Continue reading

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Ants attack crapping man

I found this article and there was NO WAY that I could pass it by and not share it with all of you! ~ Jim Beucher Doctors in Wuhan, Hubei Province have recently treated a very strange animal attack – … Continue reading

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EPA bans toxic rat poisons, citing risks to kids

The Environmental Protection Agency is banning residential sales of the most toxic rat and mouse poisons. CAPTION By Alex Brandon, AP To protect children, pets and wildlife, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban residential sales of the … Continue reading

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La. Man finds fire doesn’t get rid of fire ants

(NECN: CNN: Jeff Ferrell: Shreveport, La.) – A Louisiana man, desperate to rid his property of fire ants, used actual  fire  to attack the insects. That, as you can imagine, didn’t go very well.  And it led the fire department … Continue reading

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National Healthy Homes Conference to Address Risks from Asthma to Bedbugs

All across America, there are homes that can actually harm those who live in them.  From lead-based paint that can poison children, to cancer-causing radon, to cockroach and bedbug infestations.  Next month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development … Continue reading

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Bedbugs With Drug-Resistant MRSA ‘Superbug’ Germ Found

ATLANTA — Hate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying a staph “superbug.” Canadian scientists detected drug-resistant staph bacteria in bedbugs from three hospital patients from a downtrodden Vancouver neighborhood. Bedbugs have not been known … Continue reading

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TICKS that don’t tock

Ticks…what can I say…I hate them. They are nasty little creatures and I do not know of one well seeded bugman that does not roll his eyes at the mere mention of the word….. “TICK” (BTW, I just rolled my eyes). … Continue reading

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Lakeland woman critical after more than 1,000 wasp stings

Lakeland – Emily ‘Juanita’ Foshee, 81, is in critical condition after being stung more than 1,000 times by wasps in the backyard of her Lakeland home. Her husband of 55 years, Clyde Foshee spends his days back and forth between his jewelry … Continue reading

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Northern Manhattan Subway Riders Say Rats Abound

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Marcus Yam/The New York Times The rats are downtown, too: Fulton Street in Manhattan in June. Rodents, the traditional scourge of New York City, are having a rough year. The rise of the bedbug seems to … Continue reading

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