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POPSBites of passage Over the course of the past two or three decades, however, the Asian tiger mosquito has become considerably, prodigiously more mobile. It has circled the planet, emerging in Trinidad in 1983; Mexico in 1988; France in 1999; Cameroon in 2000; Nicaragua, Greece, Israel and Switzerland in 2003. It has colonised North and South America, Africa, and Europe, until it has become a great nuisance in Brazil, Albania, Nigeria, Mexico and Italy – “the most invasive mosquito in the world”, a team of researchers wrote in 2007, in the journal Vector-Borne Zoonotic Disease. The mosquito from the Southeast Asian jungle is also now a great nuisance in Trenton, New Jersey – the greatest present-day mosquito nuisance in a wetland state whose history is written in waves of mosquito infestation.
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POPSGod Made Me Do It The next time you're pulled over in Georgia just tell them that God made you do it. Whatever "it" might be! Religion is a get out jail free card for whatever bizarre bahavior you might wish to engage in up to and including child abuse. Ah Georgia, Sweet Geogia! Still clinging to demon infestation. I hope the child will eventually be able to get the proper medical care he so plainly needs.
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POPSSuper Rats are here continues: Prof Smith of the university's applied sciences department warned that "super rats" may be thriving in communities across Britain. The Government no longer provides funding to track resistance, meaning the scale of the problem is unclear. "Natural selection means that when you have a rat population in your town, poison will kill the ones that aren't resistant, the ones that survive may have the gene, they then have babies who can receive the gene themselves," he said. "There are mutations and changes in their DNA that alter the ability of rats to deal with these poisons. It appears to be moving west and has now been located in Swindon and Bristol. It is a warning of things to come."
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POPSYou mean it's not moths? How to control carpet beetles ARRRRGH! We've been seeing these little things around our apartment for ages, but {{Spiritualmonkey}} said, based on conversation with an exterminator back when he was working as a handyman, "Oh, don't worry, they're harmless." Like heck they are! It sounds like they're the reason I've been noticing holes in most of my woolens!! Yo, monkey, you are SO on vacuuming duty. Like, daily. Grr.
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POPSBark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees Hoping to keep their forests from completely dying, to earn money by selling dead and infected trees and to mitigate fire risks, landowners are scrambling to cut the pines. If enough are cut — up to 75 percent — it might leave some behind that, with less competition for water, can survive.
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POPSBuzzzzzzz Kill "Something is killing the bees, though. Some scientists suspect a virus; others mites, even cellphones. (Bees are not known to use phones, though, having their own communications system -- a dance called the "waggle.")
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