When I was planting flowers around our home’s foundation last weekend, I kept running into these things that I think are earwigs? They have pincers on their rear end and they freak me out. Why are they there and what do we do to get rid of them? E. L., Jamaica Plain, MA Earwigs are
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There seems to be no end of new tick diseases in the Northeast. Why us? Lyme, Connecticut was ground zero for Lyme disease 40 years ago. Lyme has never slowed down here, and has spread from the Northeast to the Mid Atlantic and Upper Midwest states. Each year in the U.S. there are 30,000 confirmed
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There’s a new tick moving into New England and it comes with its own set of issues. In the last couple of years, the lone star tick which is primarily found in the southeastern U.S., has become much more common in Massachusetts, particularly Cape Cod. This tick has been the subject of a medical mystery.
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Webster’s Collegiate Thesaurus identifies a “pest” as an annoyance, offering up useful idioms such as pain in the neck, pea in the shoe, and thorn in the flesh. The American Heritage Dictionary takes it one step further and adds “harmful” or “injurious” to the definition: Pest n. 1. An annoying person or thing; a nuisance.
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Brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is an invasive insect species from Asia that has caused serious economic impact on producers of many different crops in states where it has become well established. It is thought to have arrived in the US in shipping crates. Although adult bugs can fly, it’s an efficient hitchhiker and migration
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Q: What is the most common Pest you find in attics? A: I go into a lot of attics and roofline crawl spaces. When I get up in these spaces, sometimes it is like a time capsule that no-one has disturbed. Old items stored for years, construction materials, and hidden contraband is encountered on a
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The Black Legged Tick, formerly known as the deer tick, is the main vector in the spread of Lyme Disease. Lyme disease is a disabling and difficult to treat problem effecting millions of people and pets in the North East. The Black Legged tick has a 3 host life cycle that includes small rodents and
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They don’t really have a thousand legs. Millipedes are sometimes called “thousand-leggers,” while the similar centipedes are called “hundred-leggers.” Millipedes actually have two pairs of legs per body segment. They add body segments, and legs, as they grow, so most adults end up with 30 to 90 pairs, but one species has over 300 pairs
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I don’t know if I just have a low bug tolerance, or if the bugs really are getting worse every year. Is there anything I can do now to reduce insects and other pests around my home so I can enjoy the summer this year? L. G., Woburn, MA There are actually many things you
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