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Semi-winged pests of cultural plants in Fergana, Uzbekistan [PDF]
In cultivated landscapes, the negative influence of herbivorous species of bugs on agricultural plants is especially affected. They are distinguished by a wide variety in species composition and in the number of individual species.
Kozhevnikova Alevtina
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Background and purpose: Control of bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) as important human pests often fails in places where people live in aggregation such as prisons. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of various methods of bedbug control in
Seyed Hassan Nikookar +5 more
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Traveler's encounter with nymphs in a hotel bed
This case illustrates skin lesions in a traveler staying in a hotel bed infested with tics. Although infestation of hotels with bedbugs belonging to the Cimex genus is a growing problem worldwide, tick infestation has never been reported before.
Johanna Sandlund, Niaz Banaei
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Breakfast, lunch, and dinner sign: a hallmark of flea and bedbug bites [PDF]
: Human, dog, and cat fleas, as well as bedbugs, feed by biting their victims, causing acute prurigo, which is aggravated in sensitized victims (papular urticaria). The lesions appear in the classic "breakfast, lunch, and dinner" pattern.
Gabriel Peres +2 more
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The first data on bat ectoparasites (Acarina, Insecta) in the Baikal region and Yakutia (eastern Siberia) [PDF]
This paper summarizes new data on ectoparasites from bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from eastern Siberia (Russia). The existence of 14 bat ectoparasite species is confirmed for this territory, including eight species of gamasid mites (Gamasina ...
Maria Orlova +4 more
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Aim. The aim of the work was to study the species diversity of pests of the suborder of shield bugs (Heteroptera) in agrocenoses of the Lazarevsky district of Sochi.This paper presents data on the distribution, abundance and density of Heptoptera pest ...
E. V. Kashutina +2 more
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INTRODUCTION: Since 2013, major Cimex lectularius infestations have been detected in public shelters in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Due to this, insecticide resistance has been investigated as one of the possible causes for the failure to control bedbugs.
Grasielle Caldas D’Ávila Pessoa +4 more
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Preventing Bedbug Infestation [PDF]
Bedbugs are increasingly encountered in hotels, motels, office buildings, movie theaters, and modes of transport—anywhere the turnover of occupants is constant.
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Bedbugs (Cimex spp.) are a nuisance public-health pest that is on the rise globally, particularly in crowded cities such as Hong Kong. To investigate the health impacts of bedbug infestations among bedbug victims, online surveys were distributed in Hong ...
Eddy Hin Chung Fung +7 more
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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