Asian 'megapest' is chomping up US orchards

2011-06-28T05:30:35Z

A stink bug from Asia is chomping up US vegetable fields, orchards and vineyards, causing experts to scramble through an arsenal of weapons to try and halt this stealthy, smelly predator.

Pesticides, parasites and traps have all been tried but none have succeeded in killing off the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, which first surfaced in the northeastern United States

Cockroaches may be asthma culprit for city children

2011-06-12T20:00:09Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Cockroaches have been identified as a possible explanation for dramatic neighborhood variations in asthma rates among New York City children.

In some neighborhoods, 19 percent - nearly 1 in 5 - of children have asthma, while in others the rate can be as low as 3 percent. Heavy traffic, industria...

Crawling culprit seen in urban kids' asthma

2011-06-12T08:32:35Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Researchers have identified cockroaches as a potential explanation for dramatic variations between neighborhoods in asthma rates among New York City children.

In some New York City neighborhoods, 19 percent -- nearly 1 in 5 -- children have asthma; in others, the rate is as low as 3 percent.

NY's rat problem damaging tourism: city official

2011-04-05T14:00:07Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Absolutely no one likes a rat, a city official said on Tuesday, demanding $1.5 million be restored to the budget to be help control what he called Manhattan's horrific rat problem.

Seeing vermin running amok on city streets and in subway tunnels is a turn-off for tourists, said Manhattan Borough preside...

New York's horrific rat problem damaging tourism: official

2011-04-05T11:30:25Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Absolutely no one likes a rat, a city official said on Tuesday, demanding $1.5 million be restored to the budget to be help control what he called Manhattan's horrific rat problem.

Seeing vermin running amok on city streets and in subway tunnels is a turn-off for tourists, said Manhattan Borough president Orkin LLC shows bed bugs. New York City's bedbugs have climbed out of bed and boldly marched into places like the Empire State Building, Bloomingdales and Delores Stewart displays bed bugs found in her home in Columbus, Ohio. A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterm...

Bedbug Cities

2010-08-30T13:30:34Z

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2008, file photo, Carl Massicott, with Advanced K9 Detectives, leads his beagle dog Radar on a demonstration of how they sniff for bed bugs, during a visit to New York. Pest control company Terminex released a list Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 of the 15 most bedbug-infested cities, and New York, Philadelphia and

Theater Bedbugs

2010-10-22T07:01:36Z

FILE - This 2008 file photo provided by Virginia Tech Department of Entomology shows mother and child bed bugs. Bedbugs have attacked a popular Times Square movie theater. The AMC Empire 25 was sprayed for the pests overnight and reopened Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Virginia Tech Department of Entomology,

NYC Bedbugs

2010-11-12T13:36:25Z

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2008, file photo, Carl Massicott, with Advanced K9 Detectives, leads his beagle dog Radar on a demonstration of how they sniff for bed bugs, during a visit to New York. One of every 15 New Yorkers battled bedbugs last year, officials said Wednesday as they announced a plan to fight the spreading infestation, including a public-awareness campaign and a top entomologi...

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