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Scholarship Where Bed Bugs Hide In The Home? BEDBUGS: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT Bed bugs have been and continue to be a common pest that plagues everyone, everywhere in the world. A single female bed bug can fully mature within 37 days and reproduce roughly up to 500 eggs during her up to one-year lifecycle, depend...
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Scholarship Which Scents Keep Mosquitoes Away From Your Home? We all know how annoying mosquitoes can be. But did you know they can also spread germs and pass on diseases like West Nile virus, dengue, and Malaria? West Nile is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the U.S (CDC, 2020). This is why, it i...
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Scholarship How To Remove Fruit Flies From Your Kitchen? It’s a lovely summer evening with you and your family gathered around the kitchen table for dinner. Hearing a buzzing sound, you look down, and sure enough, there is a fruit fly on your once desirable meal. These small flies are attracted to fermenting fr...
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Scholarship What Are Woodchucks? “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood?” Since a young age, we have heard this nursery rhyme over and over again. But what is a woodchuck? Does a woodchuck actually chuck wood? The answer is actually no. “Woodchucks”, along with “whistle-pig”, ar...
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Scholarship Why Bees Are Important For The Ecosystem? Have you ever been sitting outside, quietly taking in the world around you, and a bee buzzes right by and startles you? Maybe it was interested in the food you were eating or maybe it simply flew by, but the feeling of fear that suddenly rushed into you as t...
Read More Scholarship What Are Woodchucks? It’s one of the best tongue twisters of all time and a perpetual question that rarely has an answer. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? One might start by asking what in the world is a woodchuck? Unfortunately, it’s not a miniature lumberjack ...
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Scholarship What’s The Difference Between Yellow Jackets and wasps? All yellowjackets are wasps, plain and simple, but the insinuation of this question is that there’s a difference. All wasps are not yellowjackets; there are hundreds of thousands of species of wasps, and the yellowjacket—usually Vespula germani...
Read More Scholarship How To Remove Fruit Flies From Your Kitchen? Fruit Flies are pesky little bugs that easily sneak into peoples kitchens and drive them up a wall. Many people have tried multiple ways to get rid of them, but no matter what you do, they keep on coming back. There are some precautions that can be taken ...
Read More Scholarship Why Bees Are Important For The Ecosystem? The vast majority of plant species rely on pollinators such as bees to reproduce. Bees are such fascinating and interesting creatures who play a vital role in our ecosystem. Although most people believe that bees are only useful for pollination, there are va...
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