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Several years ago, a nice lady left a “bug” sample for me to identify. It consisted of an electric alarm clock in a Ziploc bag. The accompanying note read: “Help! We're being bitten by tiny bugs...

I kneeled down and crept closer. The butterfly stood tiptoeing exposing its wings fully to the low afternoon sun, warming up. I was on the coastal path by the low cliff top at Spurn Head, a well known...

Fall armyworm caterpillars feed mostly on grasses. This year is proving to be a banner year for armyworms in some areas. Pest management professionals who care for lawns should be on the alert for fall...

Here's one you never learned in technician training. Cixiid planthoppers are 1/4 inch-long (5 mm-long bodies) insects that are common at times on trees and shrubs. They are plant feeders, with nymphs that...

This picture of BMSB was taken in Dallas County in 2017 by Annika Linkqvist and posted on iNaturalist. Note the white bands on the antennae. Brown marmorated stink bug has been causing a stink, literally,...

While spending some time in the garden pruning trees, deadheading and generally pottering around I have come across several species of shieldbug. The top shot shows a Corizus hyoscyami , a species which...

Who wants to eat insecticide? Not me, and I'm guessing certainly not your customers. So if your company does residential pest control, are your employees trained to know what to do when they encounter...

On the way back from work I popped in my local wildlife garden. I was looking for dragonfly exuviae in the small pond when I gasped: A female Southern Hawker had materialised like out of nowhere and was...

This morning I watched several males of the Small Red-eyed damselfly at North Cave Wetlands, a YWT nature reserve with a diversity of large lakes, shallow reed bed lakes and dragonfly ponds (top shot)....

Every knowledgeable PMP knows that assessment and monitoring is a crucial part of integrated pest management (IPM). Yet practically no one in the mosquito control business monitors mosquitoes. Why is that?...