Entomology in Medical News

Scientists use bed bugs' own chemistry against them

... said Joshua Benoit, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in entomology studying under David Denlinger at Ohio State University. ... The research is published in the current issue of the Journal of Medical entomology . The two bed bug alarm pheromone ingredients are known as ...

Sausalito team wins Häagen-Dazs-UC Davis 'Bee Friendly' garden competition

... Hagen-Dazs ice cream committed $125,000 to the UC Davis Department of entomology for the garden project. This encompasses site planning, preparation and ... said Lynn Kimsey, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of entomology and director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. "The garden will be a ...

Sauslito team wins Haagen-Dazs-Dazs-UC Davis 'Bee Friendly' garden competition

... Hagen-Dazs ice cream committed $125,000 to the UC Davis Department of entomology for the garden project. This encompasses site planning, preparation and ... said Lynn Kimsey, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of entomology and director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. "The garden will be a ...

Smaller mosquitoes are more likey to be infected with viruses causing human diseases

... Medicine and Hygiene . Barry Alto, Ph.D., Director of the Medical entomology Program at the Illinois Natural History Survey, along with Assistant ... them for infection. The research was conducted at the Florida Medical entomology Laboratory. The researchers painstakingly took into account the size of ...

DEET in Bug Spray Tied to Neural Damage in Mice

... implications this has for humans." "DEET has been used for a very long time with very few bad outcomes," added Susan Paskewitz, a professor of entomology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "People have killed themselves by drinking it, but you can do that with alcohol or salt. And a few have had ...

How social insects recognize dead nestmates

... Dong-Hwan Choe , the lead author of the research paper and a graduate student working towards his doctoral degree with Michael Rust , a professor of entomology at UCR. Choe explained that the research paper's results resolve a conundrum of long-standing in animal behavior and correct a misinterpretation ...

Bed Bug Infestation an Epidemic; Bugs Found in Cell Phone, TVs and Keyboards

... Deutsch, technical director for Arrow Exterminating Company, Inc., is a Board Certified Entomologist with 30 years experience in the field of Urban entomology and Public Health. Mike is a registered instructor with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and is on the board of directors ...

Bed Bugs Bring No Disease Danger

... is a nuisance effect from bed bug bites, the public health significance is minimal," said study author Jerome Goddard, an associate professor of entomology at Mississippi State University in Jackson. "It's not good. Nobody wants to have blood sucked out of them, but in the scheme of things, they're not ...

Bed Bugs, Nearly Eradicated, Make a Comeback

... of the pyrethroid toxins, such as deltamethrin, commonly used against them, according to a report in the current issue of the Journal of Medical entomology . Such nervous system poisons normally would paralyze and kill the nocturnal blood suckers. Toxicologists at the University of Massachusetts ...

Honey Bees on Cocaine 'Dance' When Food Is Found

... for food, the study authors reported. "It's not like they're gyrating wildly on the dance floor out of control," study leader Gene Robinson, an entomology and neuroscience professor at University of Illinois, said in a news release issued by the school. "This is a patterned response. It gives distance ...

Researchers Find Genes That Influence West Nile Virus

... novel targets in humans that can be exploited to intervene in a wide array of viral infections," said Young Hong, assistant professor of molecular entomology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. More information Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Lakewood Childcare Participates in Ladybug Hunt

... Field is located off Valley Parkway in Rocky River Reservation, south of Detroit Road in Rocky River. Their findings will be sent to Cornell's entomology department as a long distance contribution to their annual Ladybug Blitz. The ladybug, or the lady bird beetle as it is more properly called, is the ...

An Alternative to Medicinal Marijuana

... More information The Drug Policy Alliance has more on medical marijuana. SOURCES: John Casida, Ph.D., professor, entomology and toxicology, and director, Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley; Dennis J. Patin, M.D., ...

U of M researchers identify process that may help treat Parkinson's, spinal cord injuries

... such as Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries. The study, headed by Joshua Puhl, Ph.D., and Karen Mesce, Ph.D., in the Departments of entomology and Neuroscience, discovered its possible that the human nervous system within each segment or region of spinal cord may have its own unit burst ...

Mosquito mating mechanism could lead to new attack on dengue and yellow fever

... yellow fever viruses. "This is a new angle in our fight against vector-borne disease," said Laura Harrington, Cornell associate professor of entomology and the paper's senior author. Dengue affects 50 million people annually, and two-thirds of the world's population is at risk. In the past year, ...

Hissing cockroaches are popular, but they also host potent mold allergens

... the lungs or an open wound. This is mainly a point of public awareness, said Joshua Benoit, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in entomology at Ohio State University. We are not criticizing their use. We are just saying that if you handle these cockroaches, you should wash your hands when ...

To fight disease, animals, like plants, can tolerate parasites

... tolerant, even when the number of parasites is doubled. "Think of an aircraft carrier under enemy fire," said Andrew Read, professor of biology and entomology at Penn State, the Eberly College of Science Distinguished Senior Scholar and an associate of the Universitys Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. ...

Fire Ants are Emerging Nuisance for Virginians

... Extension specialist on urban pest management and associate professor of entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Miller and Peter Schultz, Extension specialist of horticulture crop insects and entomology professor, are leading Extensions efforts to research RIFAs and educate ...

Insect Protein Effective for Treating Heart Enlargement, Arrythmias

... research, led by cardiologist and cell biologist Nipavan Chiamvimonvat and entomology professor Bruce Hammock, identifies epoxide hydrolase inhibitors as novel ... isolated in the laboratory of Bruce Hammock, a distinguished professor of entomology who directs the UC Davis Superfund Basic Research Program and is principal ...

Water Hyacinth is Used for Health Improvements in Africa

... on other successful biocontrol programs to eradicate pests of citrus, cabbage, and cassava. He credits the development of his interest in biocontrol entomology to the traditional farmers in the village where he grew up. These farmers practiced conservation and use of a predatory ant, Lepisiota sp., to ...

Electronic Mosquito Repellents Fail to Prevent Malaria Transmission

... advertised or used for mosquito bite and malaria prevention, as they do not do so,” said lead author A. Ali Enayati, Ph.D., lecturer in medical entomology at the Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in Sari, Iran. The review appears in the latest issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication ...

Malaria-resistant Mosquito Developed

... to turn their attention to working with human malaria and trying to engineer a mosquito resistant to that. William C. Black IV, a professor of entomology at Colorado State University, noted that the work was done with Plasmodium berghei, which infects mice, rather than P. falciparum, which causes ...

Unknown Sickness Kills US Honeybees

... In the infected colonies, the weekend bee colony is not being touched by bees from other colonies. According to Diana Cox-Foster, a Penn State entomology professor, foreign fungi, bacteria and other organisms were found in an increasing number in the body of the dissected infected bees resulting in a ...

Pest Control research Leads to Pain Control Discovery

... Sciences. 'Our laboratory was initially interested in regulating the development of insect larvae,' said Hammock, a distinguished professor of entomology and member of the National Academy of Sciences.” The discovery switched the focus of the research from ‘pest control to pain control’. M. Eric ...