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Snails and slugs are members of the phylum Mollusca, along with, clams and oysters as well as squid, cuttlefish and octopus. Slugs evolved from snails and many species still retain a vestigial shell hidden under their mantle. The remnant shell is...
Snails and Slugs, may be slow but the damage they do to ornamental plants, vegetable gardens and citrus orchards is devastating and costly. These gastropods, have eaten and slimed their way into the top 5 most unwanted pests in the...
Fumigation is a treatment used to exterminate Drywood Termites. ...
Rats are everywhere! That is, everywhere humans are.Rats can be traced first, from Asia where they then spread throughout Europe along trade routes. Then they were brought to the Americas by ships transporting people and supplies, to the new...
Scientists have recently discovered a mysterious, 100-million-year-old insect trapped in amber — and as far as anyone knows, it is unlike any other insect that has ever lived on Earth. This strangely pieced together bug, looks like a composite of...
Well, we have it from the experts that even a volcanic eruption can’t discourage gophers from their daily tasks of digging holes and burrow systems and eating whatever vegetation they fancy. The May 8th, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens ripped the...
Whether it’s people, living in jam-packed cities or groups of social insects, ants to be exact, living in teaming colonies, disease can spread quickly among these severely dense populations. Fighting disease seems to require the same efforts no...
It’s the German cockroach that is now being dubbed the “Superbug” of the insect world. These tiny roaches are swift, prolific and love to live right up close and personal with human beings. Blattella germanica, better known as the German...
Vehicles, cars, camper-vans, buses, and trucks, provide many pests with a warm dry environment that often contains food. Vehicles can also provide these pests with transport, spreading the pests to wherever the vehicle travels. Most Common Pests...
We have a lot to be thankful for this year. But did you know that there are a lot of reasons to be thankful for insects, our co-inhabitants of this planet? Besides being a nutritious food source for millions of people, they provide their own form...
An ant species which is found in the rainforests of South America, Lemon ants (Myrmelachista schumanni), live in and around Duroia Hirstula, a species of tree that provides them with protected nesting areas and offers nutrition in the form of extra...
There are lots of flying insects out and about in our gardens, fields and other open areas and they are all busy at work fulfilling nature’s directives. So, since we humans are also frequenting these same places it’s important for us to steer...
What better time to start planning a summer vacation than in the middle of a cold (sort of), wet California winter. If you are doing a little California dreaming right now, why not plan a summer adventure in the beautiful southern mountains. You...
According to the National Pest Management Association, termites cause more than $5 billion in property damage each year. They can eat wood and extract energy from it, thanks to a few thousand microbes living inside their gut. This huge community of...
There's nothing like the smell of an evergreen tree and a cozy wood fire, to get you in the holiday spirit. But when you bring a live or cut Christmas tree indoors, along with the necessary firewood, some of the insects that have called your...
As of February 15, 2018, it was official, termites are socially advanced wood eating roaches, but not all cockroaches are termites. Once biologists were able to use DNA to identify genealogical relationships, evidence quickly began to show that...
The two most dominant factors of mosquito attraction have to do with sight and smell, so there’s no brushing these guys (oops! Girls) off when they’re out looking for a quickie in the moonlight. Here are four reasons a Mosquito may pick you for...
Male tarantulas have been spotted, early this season, marching in mass for mates. This annual march to find love, usually starts around September or October, but rangers in our state parks believe that the weather has male tarantulas starting...
Giant Rats: Giant rats are no longer just figments of the imagination. Now, it seems, these once mythical rodents are in fact real, and they’re absolutely, ginormous. That’s really, really big! A rat, which was called “Vika” by locals on Vangunu...
It's getting close to Halloween and it's time to think about scary, creepy and ghoulish things . The "Assassin Bug" fits the bill . It's name stirs up scary thoughts and its persona is ghoulish. Here's why it's the perfect Halloween bad bug:...
Ants are one of the few groups of animals that change their environment to meet their needs. In their case, necessity is truly the mother of invention. A single ant is capable of carrying up to 50 times its own weight, so working together as a...
It's Summer and the California beaches are the vacation destinations of millions of people. It's where we have fun in the sun, cool off in the water, and relax on the sand under colorful umbrellas with cool drinks and our favorite books. Reality...
As an invasive species, Argentine ants have been extremely successful invaders. These aggressive, territorial ants, which can live in super-colonies comprised of thousands of queens and millions of workers, easily displaced native species as they...
Here in California, the brown recluse spider has been elevated to a major urban legend alongside UFOs, Bigfoot, the Jackalope, and Elvis. There is a great "fear" of brown recluse spiders in California, mostly because of misguided and...
The South American palm weevil has ignored the border wall and is headed straight into California on its never-ending quest for plentiful food and abundant breeding grounds. Here in San Diego County, with our iconic landscape palm trees, like the...
Producing extreme wet weather conditions, Mother Nature is gearing up for another bloodthirsty assault on mankind and this time we won’t see them coming. The same conditions that encourage mosquitoes, give rise to the infamous “No-See-Ums”, also...
From the “Ents”, tree-like creatures, created by J.R.R. Tolkien for his Middle Earth fantasy world, to the “Womping Tree” of Harry Potter fame, to “Groot” of the science fiction thriller/comedy “Guardians of the Galaxy”, and you can't forget...
A wide variety of animals have been launched into space, including monkeys, dogs and bugs. The United States launched flights containing monkeys and primates ( Ham seen here in his flight couch) between 1948-1961 with one flight in 1969 and ...
Many of the advanced technologies that humans have developed for survival, insects possess naturally. In some cases, their nature has human technology beat. Spiders: "Material toughness" is defined as the amount of energy per volume that a...
Termites not only raid people's homes, but also those of other happy termite couples. Homosexuality is known as an “evolutionary paradox” because it can’t produce offspring. So why does it happen? Biologists at Kyoto University in Japan have now...
