Dr. Stephanie Richards posted a Terminix blog this week on the biology of and exposures to scorpions, particularly in residential settings. Scorpions can be found in attics of homes in some regions of the…
Dr. Stephanie Richards posted a Terminix blog this week on environmental health issues with cockroaches, particularly in residential settings. Cockroaches can contaminate food and are a potential source of allergens for humans that cause…
Dr. Richards posted a Terminix blog this week on residential issues with fleas. She described a few flea-borne diseases (i.e., plague, murine typhus and tapeworm infections), characteristics of flea, and how they develop and…
Dr. Richards posted a Terminix blog last week on the biology of bats, diseases related to bats, and how to keep bats out of buildings. Bats can possibly transmit pathogens to humans either through…
Dr. Richards posted a Terminix blog this week on the use of technology, particularly drones, in mosquito. Mosquito control personnel ideally find and target mosquito egg-laying sites to kill mosquito larvae before they emerge…
Dr. Richards posted a Terminix blog this week on how abandoned properties affect mosquito production. She described how financial downtown contributed to the depression of the housing market in some regions of the country,…
Dr. Richards posted 3 Terminix blogs this week, one of which is on the use of insects in forensic entomology. Information about insect succession is used by investigators in criminal investigations in determining the…
Dr. Richards posts a Terminix blog this week on rodents as vectors of pathogens. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists diseases that are directly transmitted by rodents of concern in…
Dr. Richards posts a Terminix blog this week on the geographic spread of mosquitoes and mosquito-borne pathogens. She identified some examples of invasive mosquitoes that have affected the United States, such as Aedes aegypti,…
Dr. Richards posts a Terminix blog this week on termites. Specifically, she discussed about termite biology and ecology (which is important to understand in the design of termite control program) and economic damages from…