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PENDER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - Pender County Mosquito Control is preparing for treatments for the season and is asking beekeepers in the county to help protect their bees. Beekeepers should register the ...
For over six decades, the Navy occupied the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, off the coast of the main territory, to carry out military exercises. When it finally left in 2003, locals alleged that ...
Based on Buzz Bissinger’s New York Times bestseller The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II, the film is set after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when four of America’s top ...
Why do their bites itch? And how can you stop mosquitoes from biting you? For starters, estimates of mosquito species worldwide range from 3,200 to 3,900 or more. More than 150 of those species ...
"They transmit West Nile virus and Saint Louis encephalitis virus in this area," the director of science and outreach for the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District, Katherine Ramirez ...
CRAWFORD COUNTY, Wis. (WKBT) -- As the seasons are changing, officials are highlighting a common but often overlooked mosquito breeding site: unused tires. These everyday objects can become ...
That itchy bump you get after a mosquito bites you is usually nothing to worry about. It's just your body reacting to the bug's spit. But mosquitoes can also carry diseases. So, how do you know if ...
Mosquito season is just around the corner, and those bugs could start showing up around May. The Metropolitan Mosquito Control District is getting ahead of the pests by flying a chopper low over ...
The City of Corpus Christi has released this week's mosquito spraying schedule. "The spraying route schedule is tentative and subject to change due to weather conditions and wind speeds," said ...
These mosquito-borne diseases continue to pose a threat to public health, in part because of the prevalence of human-made mosquito habitat in urban and residential areas. Juvenile mosquitoes ...
The results were immediate. Every mosquito died within 12 hours, suggesting that the human blood they drank had become poison for them. That alone could make this drug a novel tool in our ongoing ...