Q. I have seen tiny bugs walking along the edges of old photo albums and books in our study. My son said they were booklice and that sounds gross!Are there really booklice, and what can they do!
VIEW MOREQ: Where do ‘fruit flies’ come from? It’s almost as if they appear by ‘spontaneous generation’!
VIEW MOREQ. My cat is scratching like crazy, and sleeping on a dresser. I think my cat has fleas. What should I do?
VIEW MOREQ. Where do the pantry pests in my kitchen come from? Are they already in the food that I buy from the supermarket? If so, that’s disgusting!
VIEW MOREALERT! Just when we have gotten used to Lyme disease (sort of)…now there is another emerging infectious disease and it’s creeping into our area. Babesiosis is a parasitic disease that is spread by the bite of an infected blacklegged or deer tick, the same tick responsible for Lyme disease.
VIEW MOREQ. My son is doing a science project on spiders. How common are black widow spiders around here?
VIEW MOREQ. My friend told me that bleach is actually a pesticide. Is that true? If it is, I sure don’t want to wash my family’s clothes with it!
A. Well, yes it’s true…sort of. When most people think of a pesticide, they think of a product used to kill insects. An insecticide is only one type of pesticide. Many household products found under the kitchen sink, and many public health products are also pesticides, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal agency that regulates pesticides.
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