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The eastern subterranean termite is the most commonly found and most economically significant termite in North America. They are found as far north as southern Ontario. Originating in southeastern United States they are considered to be invasive in southern Canada, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands), South America (Uruguay and […]

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The desert locust is a periodically swarming, short-horned grasshopper from the family Acrididae. They are primarily found in northern and eastern Africa, Arabia, and southwest Asia. However, they can extend their reach south to Eastern Africa, and into southern Europe, as well as east into northern India. Seeing as these […]

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The African desert locust, aka plague locust, seems to be here to stay. Locusts were a plague of Biblical proportions in 2020, and it’s bad. They arrive, seemingly out of nowhere and drive through farmlands and croplands, wiping clean the hard work of farmers; who can do nothing but watch […]

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