Category Archives: Painful Insect Stings and Bites

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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Central Life Sciences: Stinging Insect Tips

29 Nov, 2011 By: Doug Van Gundy While the cooling temperatures of fall months reduce the activity of wasps and other stinging insects, this is the time of year that wasps are preparing for winter and looking for places to … Continue reading

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Delaware health officials confirm first case of human tularemia in 8 years

Robert Herriman, Infectious Disease Examiner In a Delaware Health and Social Services press release Friday, health officials report that a 45-year-old Kent County man was laboratory-confirmed for the bacterial infection, tularemia. Confirmation was performed by the Delaware Public Health Laboratory. … 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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Flesh-eating ants bit elderly heart patient hundreds of times on legs and genitals as he lay in intensive care

An elderly man was bitten hundreds of times on his legs and genitals by a swarm of flesh-eating ants as he lay in his hospital bed. Cornelius Lewis, 76, was in the intensive care unit at Gulf Coast Medical Center … Continue reading

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All-natural bedbug sprays have little bite

Products such as Rest Easy and Bed Bug Bully claim to be highly effective at controlling the insects, but researchers say there aren’t yet any consumer products proven to keep bedbugs away. Bedbugs can be very hard to get rid … Continue reading

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Hospitals face bloodsucking parasites

by Heather Mayer, DOTmed News Reporter On top of reimbursement cuts, shrinking procedure volumes, health care reform, mass layoffs and nurse strikes, hospitals now have to worry about an invasion of bloodsucking parasites. Don’t let the bedbugs bite.   According … Continue reading

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Continuing Education: Bed Bugs

As you know, we at Beucher & Son Termite and Pest Control are always investigating new pest control techniques as well as brushing up on the old ways. We stay on the cutting edge of all pest treatments, this ensures … Continue reading

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Bed Bugs Make A Comeback

Panama City, Fla: Good night… sleep tight… don’t let the bed bugs bite.  It’s a well-known bedtime rhyme and increasingly, a real problem. Bed bugs hide in small cracks and crevasses, but they’re often found in mattresses and box springs … Continue reading

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FL ag commissioner urges protection against mosquito-borne diseases

TALLAHASSEE – Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson says two cases of West Nile Virus have now been detected in horses in the state and the number of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) cases continues to rise. Bronson … Continue reading

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