Friday, November 20, 2009 |

Quarantine of citrus trees extended (The Press-Enterprise)

Nov 19, 2009 - The California Department of Food and Agriculture has extended a quarantine of citrus tree parts into several areas of Riverside County, including the entire Coachella Valley, to control the spread of a pest that kills citrus trees.

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Kerry Trueman: Bats: The New Canary In The Coal Mine? (The Huffington Post)

Nov 19, 2009 - You may think bats are scary, but what's truly terrifying is the mysterious fungus that's decimating the bat population, according to an article by...

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Biofuels cropping may threaten health, environment (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)

Nov 19, 2009 - Cropping for biofuels could threaten human health as well as the environment, according to delegates at a biosecurity conference in Canberra.

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Sterile insects released to combat LBAM (Sonoma Index-Tribune)

Nov 19, 2009 - Three-thousand sterilized light brown apple moths were released from this small container into a vineyard on Ramal Road Wednesday afternoon. David Bolling/Index-Tribune

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Funding for pine beetle control announced (Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune)

Nov 18, 2009 - Mountain pine beetle- infested trees on Crown land in the Greenview Municipal District will be surveyed and controlled as part of yesterday's $25 million funding announcement to fight the pest. The federal and Alberta governments announced the investment to help contain the spread of the beetle.[...]

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Making a success of controlling nassella tussock. (Scoop.co.nz)

Nov 18, 2009 - November 18, 2009. Making a success of controlling nassella tussock. A survey conducted earlier this year shows strong support for Environment Canterbury’s strategy to control nassella tussock, an invasive pest plant.

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DOE Seeks Champion Bedbug Assassin (Gothamist)

Nov 18, 2009 - The Department of Education is taking bids in search of a pest-control specialist to eradicate any sign of those troublesome bedbugs in schools around the city. A spokeswoman tells the Post that the listing is "a contingency measure, not a response to an increase in bugs." The department intends to spent no more than $100,000 over the course of the three-year contract, so who will be the ...

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Frost & Sullivan: The North American and Western European Biopesticides Markets Will Grow Strong Thanks to Chemical ... (redOrbit)

Nov 18, 2009 - LONDON, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The biopesticides market in Western Europe and North America is growing strongly.

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Pfizer enters tropical disease drug partnership (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Nov 18, 2009 - Scientists from a not-for-profit foundation will test 150,000 Pfizer Inc. drug candidates as part of a search for treatments for three tropical diseases that are spread by insects.

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Insects could be as smart as mammals, say scientists (The Scotsman)

Nov 18, 2009 - INSECTS with minuscule brains may be as intelligent as much bigger animals, it was claimed yesterday.

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Plan Now to Control Profit-Robbing Weeds in 2010 (AgWeb.com)

Nov 17, 2009 - Early weed control planning tips to help ensure next year’s success

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Are Sterile Mosquitoes The Answer To Malaria Elimination? (Medical News Today)

Nov 17, 2009 - The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), the release of sexually sterile male insects to wipe out a pest population, is one suggested solution to the problem of malaria in Africa. A new supplement, published in BioMed Central's open access Malaria Journal, reviews the history of the technique, and features details about aspects of its application in the elimination of malaria.

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Adelaide is one big web site (Adelaide Now)

Nov 17, 2009 - THE spider population in Adelaide's homes and gardens has exploded this season, thanks to wet and warm weather - putting extra pressure on pest controllers.

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Sacred Hearth Catholic Church to be fumigated (The Brownsville Herald)

Nov 17, 2009 - A sun yellow tarp will cloak Sacred Heart Catholic Church in downtown Brownsville during the following days as pest control employees work to control its termite problem.

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Schools: Stop bedbugging us (New York Post)

Nov 17, 2009 - The Department of Education is advertising for a killer -- soliciting bids for the "identification and extermination of bedbugs within the schools citywide." A listing in yesterday's City Record said a contract with a pest-control professional wou...

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Storage unit infested with cockroaches (ABC12 Mid-Michigan)

Nov 17, 2009 - They're often seen as vile, dirty pests.

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Message Board: Pests, Weeds and Diseases: Finally a cure for Nematodes (Pitch-Care.com)

Nov 17, 2009 - Of course the grass looks good. The sun is shining.

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The secret life of insects and other disturbing facts (Brisbane Times)

Nov 17, 2009 - All the stuff you did not want to know about the pest that live with us.

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Rabbit-control bid dependent on landowner follow-up (Otago Daily Times)

Nov 16, 2009 - The effectiveness of a recent large-scale rabbit control programme at St Bathans will hinge on follow-up work by landowners. About 700ha of land surrounding the township was covered in the programme, with carrots laced with 1080 poison used on about 500ha and pindone-laced carrots used on 300ha.

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Eek! Rats giving RI Statehouse staffers a scare (AP via Yahoo! News)

Nov 16, 2009 - Sue Stenhouse spends her days figuring out how Rhode Island officials should calmly deal with disaster. But when a rat scurried through her office, her natural response was to jump on a chair, snap it with rubber bands and threaten to spritz it with Obsession.

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