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Spotted lanternflies and horntail wood wasps conspire to remove invasive Tree of Heaven from landscapes in the DMV and elsewhere.

Tree of Heaven (TOH) was imported to North America by an avid gardener in Philadelphia, PA in 1784, a time when importing exotic plants from around the world to gr...


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Beneath a picnic table, fierce paper wasps are on guard and ready to defend their nest.

Subscribers to Bug of the Week have noted the somewhat perplexing juxtaposition in the viewpoint of this blog. Sometimes we advise extreme prejudice against bugs like mosquitos and bed bugs, and sometimes ...


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Part of the flower? Not really. A camouflaged looper caterpillar pretends to be florets of a goldenrod blossom.

Movie aficionados may have seen Mark Wahlberg in “Shooter”, a warrior who...


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Hungry Northern House mosquitoes, vectors of West Nile virus, are thriving and on the hunt for blood.

As we enter the month of August, it’s high time to protect yourself from mosquito borne illnesses like West Nile Virus. In mid-July a local news agency reported the detection of West Nile Vir...


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