Q. Where do the pantry pests in my kitchen come from? Are they already in the food that I buy from the supermarket? If so, that’s disgusting!
VIEW MOREALERT! Just when we have gotten used to Lyme disease (sort of)…now there is another emerging infectious disease and it’s creeping into our area. Babesiosis is a parasitic disease that is spread by the bite of an infected blacklegged or deer tick, the same tick responsible for Lyme disease.
VIEW MOREQ. My son is doing a science project on spiders. How common are black widow spiders around here?
VIEW MOREQ. My friend told me that bleach is actually a pesticide. Is that true? If it is, I sure don’t want to wash my family’s clothes with it!
A. Well, yes it’s true…sort of. When most people think of a pesticide, they think of a product used to kill insects. An insecticide is only one type of pesticide. Many household products found under the kitchen sink, and many public health products are also pesticides, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal agency that regulates pesticides.
VIEW MOREQ. We have these small, dark gnats inside our house. I don’t think they’re fruit flies because I’ve dealt with those before. They sort of look like miniature mosquitoes and they seem to hang around the family room windows. Do you think they’re coming in from outside or are they breeding in my house?
VIEW MOREQ. I was relocating a stack of firewood in our yard the other day and found several very large (over an inch long), shiny black beetles in the firewood pile. My wife said I should spray the wood with pesticide now so that it will be safe to use this winter. This doesn’t sound like a good idea to me. Your opinion please?
VIEW MOREThe California Department of Pesticide Registration put together a list of what they call "interesting occurrences" that have been investigated in California. We added a couple of our own. None of the people involved died, but almost all required medical attention. When you have a pest problem, please call a professional. Don’t try to do it yourself!
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