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Environmental Groups Claim California Is Pesticide-Happy
RICHMOND (KCBS) – A coalition of health and environmental groups has stirred up a hornet’s nest at the State Department of Food and Agriculture, contending that the state is too quick to use pesticides...
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Formerly-Vegan Starbucks Drink Dyed With Crushed Bugs
(CBS News) Are you a fan of Starbucks Strawberry Frappuccinos? How do you feel about eating bugs? The website thisdishisvegetarian.com reports Starbucks’ Strawberries & Creme Frappuccino is not...
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Dangerous Asian Mosquito Nears The Bay Area
SAN JOSE (KCBS) – Vector control officials here in the Bay Area are taking steps to halt any northern migration of a pest that has begun showing up in Southern California. “The Asian Tiger Mosquito is...
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Hiker Stranded In Sierra Nevada Survived By Eating Bugs, Treating His Broken Leg
FRESNO (KPIX/AP) — A hiker who was stranded for six days in California’s Sierra Nevada with a badly broken leg says survival mode kicked in when he treated his own injury and sought sustenance by...
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Movie Theater Reopens In Lodi After Bed Bug Infestation Forces Closure
LODI (CBS SF) — A movie theater in Lodi reopened Thursday after a bed bug infestation shut it down. Two girls who went to the theater woke up covered in painful bed bug bites last Friday. The pests...
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20 Giant Millipedes Found Alive In Bogus Toy Box At SFO Customs
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Customs officials say they have thwarted a plan to sneak twenty live millipedes inside a box coming through the international mail facility at San Francisco International. U.S....
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iOS 8 Bug Prompts Apple To Withhold Apps Using Highly Touted Feature
CUPERTINO (CBS/AP) — A bug in Apple’s new iOS 8 software for mobile devices is prompting the company to withhold apps that use a highly touted feature for keeping track of fitness and health data....
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Concord Seeking Arrest Warrant For ‘Slumlord’ Over Bedbug Violations
CONCORD (CBS SF) — Bedbugs have led the City of Concord to seek an arrest warrant for a landlord. Concord was seeking the arrest of property owner Athan Magganas, who has allegedly ignored multiple...
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Thousands Of Ladybugs Take Flight To East Bay Hills For Winter
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Thousands upon thousands of ladybugs are taking flight in the East Bay hills. East Bay Regional Park Naturalist Michael Charnofsky says even in Wednesday’s rain, the ladybugs are...
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Bay Area Girl Makes Book Publisher See That Girls Can Love Bugs, Monsters &...
MILPITAS (KPIX 5) — A seven-year old Bay Area girl got a big publishing company to change some of their books. Parker Dains was in the children’s section at the Milpitas Public Library where she found...
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Smart Phone App Will Help Blow Whistle On Invasive Species
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State University scientist has developed a smart phone application to help keep track of invasive species. The free app is part of the Midwest Invasive Species...
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Grapevine-Killing Pest Turns Up In Sonoma County
SANTA ROSA (CBS/AP) — Sonoma County agriculture inspectors are on high alert after discovering a pest that has been the scourge of the wine grape industry in tree shipments from Southern California....
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Bay Area ‘Entopreneurs’ Feed Growing Appetite For Edible Insects
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — They hop. They crawl. They squirm. And they could be coming to a dinner plate near you. An increasing number of “entopreneurs” are launching businesses to feed a growing...
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Is That A Termite Colony Forming On The Wall, Or Just Flying Ants Buzzing The...
EL CERRITO (CBS SF) — Ants are bad enough when crawling army-style across your kitchen countertops, but when they go airborne, it’s an all out aerial assault on your goals for an insect-free household....
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Burning Man Is Crawling With Bugs: ‘They Get Up And In You’
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada (CBS SF) — Burning Man is crawling with bugs this year, and organizers don’t know why. The festival can be hard to get into, with tickets going for hundreds of dollars, if you...
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Facebook Rewards 10-Year-Old $10K For Hacking Instagram
MENLO PARK (CBS SF) — A computer wiz kid from Finland is the youngest techie to win Facebook’s hacking reward. Facebook rewarded a boy named Jani $10,000 after the Helinski-based youngster identified a...
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Study: Luxury Homes Have More Bugs, Greater Bug Diversity
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The bigger the house and pricier the neighborhood, the more bugs and kinds of bugs are likely to live there. A group of urban ecologists have dubbed it the “luxury effect.”...
View ArticleTo Help Reduce Mosquito Population, Scientists Are Unleashing 20 Million Of Them
CBS Local — California scientists will release 20 million mosquitoes in an effort to reduce the population of disease-carrying mosquitoes, NPR reported. While it may sound counter-intuitive, the...
View ArticleDiscover Cool Bugs Coming To Insect Palooza With Norman Gerschenz Of...
Norman Gerschenz, CEO and co-founder of SaveNature.org and Director of the Insect Discovery Lab brings some really cool bugs to the set for Michelle Griego to see – and even hold. They are just a few...
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