Are you willing to endanger your well-being to advance medical research? Apparently Jesse William Lazear answered “yes” and proved the hypothesis that the mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is the culprit in spreading the yellow fever virus. This dreadful disease killed so much more soldiers than actual military combat during the Spanish-American War in 1890′s. Lazear was…
Tagged with: Culicidae • Diptera • diseases • mosquito • research • scientist
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As soon as I finished the blog about sunlight and near-sightedness, I invited my wife for a walk along with our toddler who didn’t get a chance to leave the house earlier today. The park adjacent to our house has been a blessing to our family’s physical and mental health. The open space of turf…
Tagged with: Coleoptera • ecology • North America • personal • Scarab beetle • turfgrass
This featured photograph is taken by Alan S. Hochman, an explorer and wildlife photographer living in Florida, United States of America. The Mallow Scrub Hairstreak butterfly, Strymon columella F. belongs to the second largest butterfly family Lycaenidae (order Lepidoptera, subfamily Theclinae and tribe Eumaeini). You can find more information about this butterfly’s taxonomy and related…
Tagged with: butterfly • Insecta • Lepidoptera • North America
The recent unusual seasonal patterns have many anxiously waiting what is in store for us in the months ahead. The question is “will the bugs bug us more this year?“ The past winter season, which was our family’s first experience here in Canada, was unusually mild based on historical records, and interpreted by acquaintances as…
Tagged with: bug • pest control • pests • seasonal patterns • spring
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The following is an entry I submitted to a newsletter intended to create more awareness of the bed bug problem here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. To disseminate information to a wider audience and as a follow-up to the lecture on bed bugs, I am posting it here at www.insectexperts.com. Myth: We cannot see bed bugs…
Tagged with: bed bug • Canada • facts • Hemiptera • Insecta • Manitoba • pest control • pests • Winnipeg
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I got some really positive feedback on my first ever public lecture as an entomologist here in Canada last Thursday night. In fact, I could be giving another presentation in another institution later on. It was on bed bugs, a huge concern in North America, and I playfully gave the title “Good night, sleep tight…don’t…
Tagged with: bed bug • Canada • Hemiptera • lecture • Manitoba • North America • personal • pest control • pests • video • Winnipeg
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