Carpet Beetle infestations leave families afrai...

One family in Inverness, Scotland are being made prisoners in their own home with an ongoing infestation of carpet beetles. The family have been dealing with the infestation for four...

What else is living in your house besides you?

Scientists selected 50 random houses from a list of volunteers who had filled out a survey about their residence and residents. All the homes in the experiment ranged in age,...

The Black Deaths impact upon European civilisat...

The plagues impact on European civilisation cannot be understated, nor confined to statistics on population reduction. The Black death was horrible, however it had benign economic effects, helping transform the...

How Artificial Intelligence can join with integ...

One of the most promising future technologies to join with pest management is AI. Artificial intelligence is widely regarded as a means to increase efficiency and if used correctly a...

A low-tech pesticide alternative to transform B...

Current crop protection strategies are heavily reliant upon chemical pesticide, however researchers are testing an alternative pest control measure to move the industry towards ecological beneficial and sustainable farming. At...

Is the plague hiding in plain sight?

While we understand the plague, we understand how it is transferred, how it works, what we do not fully understand is how plague recurs after lying dormant. Findings published in...