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...according to Sam Lipson, the city’s director of environmental health. Lipson said that the development should not dramatically raise concerns about the disease. “A number of factors point to a low risk to humans,” he said. Lipson advised using insect repellent, wearing covering clothing, and eliminating standing water to reduce the risk of virus-transmitting bites. Gary Alpert, Harvard’s entomology officer of environmental health, said an unusually dry August and cooling temperatures, which eliminate potentially dangerous mosquito populations, would soon put an end to the threat this year...
...Brood - that found an adult outlet for the fears at the root of the horror genre. His 1986 remake of The Fly still stands as an eloquent treatise on man's determination to cope with a degenerative disease: cancer, AIDS or, in this case, a slavering, 6ft.-tall insect...
...pumpkins, peaches, berries, cotton crops, corn, watermelons, are all flourishing, according to the Texas Cooperative Extension service. Good news that is only heard during the ag report on the rural radio stations, while we city dwellers simply complain about having to mow the lawn twice a week and wear insect repellent to collect the mail...
...facility would be the third such body farm in the country and the largest. Criminologists and forensic anthropologists use these research facilities to study how bodies decompose and at what rate in various natural environments. The research can be grisly but valuable. Forensic entomologists observe insects - beetles, flies, worms and even butterflies - that feed on flesh and body fluids at specific times in the decomposition process, offering critical clues to law enforcement about time and place of death. Insect behavior also can hold the key to finding a body; flocks of the beautiful Southern pearly eyed butterfly, for example, gather...
...Make that a lot more loony. He begins to perceive an insect infestation in the motel. His lover at first doubts him, then with growing intensity succumbs to his madness with results you can perhaps imagine, though not, I think, with the creepiness that Friedkin, working from a script Tracy Letts adapted from his own play, enthusiastically realizes. He's a director used to working on a larger scale (The Exorcist, The French Connection) who has not had much luck in the movies lately. But, boy, he's good working on this miniscule scale. Those imaginary bugs quickly become more...