No, we’re not talking about the proverbial love bug bite that makes people fall in love or childhood cooties. The Love Bug Solution is a car cleaner that helps protect vehicles from the actual fly. Also known as March Fly, Honeymoon Fly, Telephone Bug, Kissy Bug and Double Headed Bug, these pests are acidic to […]
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What do you use if you want to trap and kill mosquitoes? If you’re Fredros Okumu, all you need is the smell of some old, sweaty socks. An African inventor recently discovered an interesting fact. While humans may find the scent of sweaty socks repulsive, mosquitoes are attracted to the smell. So, he has devised
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Businessweek As lice in some areas have become resistant to conventional remedies, desperate parents are turning to newfangled shampoos and pricey delousing house calls. Aside from a handful of treatments vetted by the Food and Drug Administration, the lice business is unregulated. There’s little to stop anyone from setting up shop to sell homegrown anti-lice
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Business Week: World Entomophagy is one of a growing number of insect suppliers that promote bugs as food. For humans. Encouraged by media attention, TV shows like Fear Factor, and growing concerns about the threat of overpopulation to the food supply, Americans—at least a few—are warming to the idea. “In the past three years, interest
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Edward Linacre, a student at Melbourne, Australia’s Swinburne University. has won this year’s James Dyson Award, with his “Airdrop Irrigation” system. The system harvest water from the air and delivers it directly to the roots of plants by mimicking a trick from the Namib beetle. Minute water droplets from the fog gather on its wings;
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The Bug-A-Salt (bug assault, get it?) is a miniature shotgun that fires ordinary table salt in a lethal pattern against house flies, mosquitos and other pesky insects. Unlike other methods of swatting flies, with the Bug-A-Salt, the fly remains whole for easy cleanup. In the video below, see a demonstration of the weapon’s fly killing
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A Pennsylvania man, with no pest control experience has invented his own trap to kill the stink bugs that have inundated his home. By his count, he’s killed 17,000 stink bugs in the last year. It used a combination of light, which attracts stink bugs, and a fruit-and-vegetable mixture that acts as a lure. He
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