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Chelle Hartzer

This Sucks! (AKA: Halloween is awesome)

The smell of fall in the air, the skeletons all over, the spiderwebs covering entire houses (in my case real ones because I don't knock...

Chelle Hartzer

Bring Out Your Dead (AKA: Obsessing on diseases)

Last week I started writing an article for a trade journal on small flies in food processing and wound up talking about all the food...

Chelle Hartzer

Another National "Holiday" (AKA: Pest management saves the world!)

When I started college, I wasn’t really aware of entomology. I switched my major to entomology after my second year. My very first...

Chelle Hartzer

The Rats are Coming! (AKA: Shut the front door!)

The other day, I was doing a talk on rodenticides. Rodenticides are a hot topic right now, primarily because California has banned the...

Chelle Hartzer

I come to suck your blood (AKA: Halloween is awesome)

The smell of fall in the air, the skeletons all over, the spiderwebs covering entire houses, and goblins and ghosts and vampires all out....

Chelle Hartzer

Feeling OK? (AKA: What's the plague got to do with it?)

Since we are still in the middle of a pandemic, this is a great time to talk about other outbreaks of diseases. Specifically the plague....