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As occasionally happens, I have a blog written and ready to go (I typically write my first drafts on Mondays) and something happens and I...

Much of the US is under an early heat wave right now. I know where I am, temperatures are much higher than normal for this early in the...

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...

Actually, it’s just rain, and it’s morning. But it’s cold and I just want to curl up with a good book and a cup of tea. While I do have...

Charles Darwin once wrote to his friend: I am dying by inches, from not having anybody to talk to about insects. Over the last week, I...

Many of our pest species have seasonal trends. Even if you live in southern climates without much of a temperature shift during the year,...

I remember my first entomology class in college. I was super excited because we had to do an insect collection. This meant I got to be...

It’s a bit chilly in many parts of the US. Not just here, even the Mediterranean had snow recently! One of the many challenges of pest...