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Posts Tagged: bed bugs
Don't Let Bed Bugs Ruin Your Vacation
Reading the words “bed bug” in a sentence is enough to make most people's skin crawl!...
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Bed Bug Awareness Week
Top 20 Pest Notes of 2017
![Larva and adult furniture carpet beetles. [Credit: D-H Choe]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/50653small.jpg "Larva and adult furniture carpet beetles. [Credit: D-H Choe]")
Pests have popularity contests too. We recently looked at how many visits our popular Pest Notes...
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Larva and adult furniture carpet beetles. [Credit: D-H Choe]
Fire blight. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]
Adult leaffooted bug. [Credit: DR Haviland]
Adult roof rat. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]
UC Riverside Fumigation School
The Urban Entomology Program at the University of California, Riverside and AgriTurf Distributing...
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Fumigation Tent.
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Do-It-Yourself Bed Bug Control?
[From the Summer issue of the UC IPM Retail Nursery & Garden Center News] Don't let the bed...
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Fig 1. Adult and nymph bed bugs. (D.-H. Choe)
Fig 2. Fecal spots and shed exoskeleton are useful signs of bed bugs. (D.-H. Choe)
Fig. 3 Interceptor monitors can help you detect where bed bugs may be present. (D.-H. Choe)
Fig 4a. Mattress encasements can help prevent bed bug establishment. Cover both mattress and box spring for better protection. (D. Gouge)
4b.Mattress encasement label. (B. Messenger-Sikes
4b.Mattress encasement label. (B. Messenger-Sikes
Retiring entomologist will be missed
He built a villa for termites, delighted school children with giant cockroaches, did...
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Vernard Lewis.
"Villa Termiti is still unique," said Vernard Lewis, shown standing in front of the structure he built to test termite management methods. "Who does that?" Build a building for infesting with bugs?"
Built at the UC Richmond Field Station in 1993, the 400-square-foot Villa Termiti has been fumigated, x-rayed and featured on the cover of Popular Mechanics.
Lewis, left, and Mike Haverty stand next to a termite mound in Kakadu National Park in Northern Australia.
Adult Madagascar hissing cockroach.
Lewis, right, describes his termite research to UC ANR colleagues Robin Meadows and Evett Kilmartin.
No "Ivory Tower" for Lewis, shown crawling out from under a house after inspecting for termites.
