Interesting dialog about Bed Bugs from TV show Rachel Ray!
http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/show/segments/view/bed-bug-epidemic/
Also spend some time and read the tips from the National Pest Management Association or the ProBest Pest Management website.
6+ billion people – whose going to feed them all?
As the world populations continue to grow, we have to consider how we are going to feed them all. A few weeks ago I suggested this “OK I have a great idea, NYC rat problem = Thailand” and just recently another article appeared with a similar theme “Could eating insects solve world food shortage?” written about this article “Insects Au Gratin” Looking for new ways to feed the world.
Coming to a table near you – insects al a mode…?
Spring is almost here!
Spring is almost here, at least in Arizona and soon we will heading to those wonderful 120° temperatures. So the BIG question are you ready for Spring Cleaning? Here are a few tips on preparing for the summer heat ahead of us all.
If you need any help feel free to call us at 602-249-7378 ProBest Pest Management
University of Arizona Insect Collection
Established in the 1940’s as a small collection dealing with agricultural pests, it has grown to one of the largest and most comprehensive research collection of arthropods in the southwestern United States.
Great resource site for checking out those pests that hang out in the Southwest and yes we are talking about insects…
As if the Bed Bugs weren’t bad enough!!!!
“Women torches bedbug – infested mattress while angry at husband.” Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.wtsp.com
This all happened the day before Valentine’s Day, the husband didn’t react fast enough so she lit the mattress on fire. I love what the Pest Management Professional Greg Rice of Hulett Environmental Services said
As for the infestation, Rice says if there were bedbugs in the apartment, it’s doubtful they all died in the fire.
“I don’t know if she killed the bedbugs, but she certainly killed that mattress.”
So who will survive December 21, 2012?
The Mayan Calendar indicates or at least ends on that date, really the Mayan’s indicated a change. So whatever that is I’m sure we will adapt. But it got me to thinking about who would survive and you know it will be the bugs.
The insects have been around forever – What is the Evolutionary History of Insects? Written By: Michael Anissimov The evolutionary history of insects, like that of many other invertebrate groups, is poorly understood. For many decades, it was thought that they branched off of millipedes and centipedes, which are known to have colonized the land as early as 428 million years ago, during the Silurian period. But recent genetic studies suggest that insects more likely split off from crustaceans sometime around 410 million years ago. However, thanks to the high oxygen levels of the Carboniferous period, about 320 million years ago, some insects grew to huge sizes, such as the griffinfly Meganeura, which had a two foot wingspan. But when oxygen levels went down, these insects promptly died due to an inability to circulate sufficient oxygen through their bodies. Read his entire article by clicking on his title above or his home seal by clicking his name.
Cartoon by http://www.Bizarro.Blogspot.com
So who’s planning to be around on December 22, 2012, I guess we will see. So here’s looking at you, I hope.
Hotlix and their buggy candy.. just in time for Valentine’s day
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By the way ProBest Pest Management carries these tasty treats
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Movies – There are a few that may surprise you on this list but I think some of you will appreciate some of the weirder ones. Here was my list of Top 7 homicidal-creepy crawlies movie creatures… When I was 15 I had the chance to go to Japan for the 13th World Scout Jamboree and on the plane flight I read the book “I am Legend“. It became one of those items that I would read from time to time and then they made a movie of it “I am Legend“
My all time favorite is the 1951 version on “The Day the Earth Stood Still” – I did watch the remake but the original was and is still my absolute favorite.
Now I know you’re waiting for my favorite bug movie and it has to be the 1990 Arachnophobia with John Goodman as the bug dude – it stills creeps me out.
Check it out – it is a spider creepy movie…
US timelines
Lewis Caleb Beck in the Patent Office around 1848 to carry out chemical analyses of agricultural products
1904-1906 Upton Sinclair (did you know he lived in Buckeye, AZ with his 3rd wife) publishes “The Jungle” about the meatpacking industry which sparked the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act
Pesticide Control Law 1910
FDA – 1930
Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law – 1938
FIFRA – Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act passed in – 1947
FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), 1/4/2011
Hearing is important to all of us. Those of us who have some insect knowledge know that most insects don’t technically have ears as we would call them, more often than not their ears are in weirder locations than ours. Their ears are often located on their knees or even their chins but not always on the side of their heads. It is amazing to me how nature adapts, amazing that for some reason – the insects don’t need ears on their heads but they do need ears! Check out this article!
50 million year old cricket and katydid fossils hint at the origins of insect hearing from National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) from EurekaAlert.org
