Here are a few of the recent articles and videos about Texas AgriLife entomologists in the media.  Note: you may have to sign in with the media provider to view some of these stories.

• Crazy Ants Invade Texas, CW 33 TV News, Dallas, TX. Daniel Novick, November 3, 2011
• Houston mosquitoes swarm, but relief is on the way Houston Chronicle, October 23, 2011
• Positive heat wave side effects: Fewer fire ants CBS-DFW Channel 11, August 15, 2011
• DFW has five straight record highs, but at least bugs are gone Fort Worth Star Telegram, August 5, 2011
• Rasberry crazy ants on the move  AgriLife Today, July 29, 2011
• Ticks make you nervous? AgriLife Today. July 18, 2011
• Pesky thrips can be annoying. NBC Channel 5, May 10, 2011
• Bill would relax Pest Control Rules for Schools. Texas Tribune, March 10, 2011
• Cold a problem for plants, not pests. Weatherford Democrat, February 16, 2011
• Wizzie Brown puts home remedies for fire ant control to the test. AgriLife Today.  March 7, 2011
• Bedbug Nation: Critters make a comeback. Amanda Gardner.  Bloomberg Business News. Sept. 3, 2010. An article about the growing anxiety accompanying the spread of bed bugs in the U.S.
  
• Statewide Volunteers receive Entomology Specialist training in San Antonio.  Paul Schattenberg.  AgriLife News.  Oct. 5, 2010 Report on this year’s intensive entomology training class for Master Volunteers.
• Bed bugs are back in Dallas and eating into budgets.  Dallas Morning News, August 16, 2010, Christina Rosales.
• Study enlists backyard bug counters to learn whether fireflies may be flaming out.  Dallas Morning News, August 11, 2010, Kristjana Gudmundsson.  Update on a citizen science project on fireflies.
• San Antonio doing the cricket crunch.  San Antonio Express News, July 15, 2010,  Jeorge Zarazua. Also see Crickets take over San Antonio July 16, 2010 WWLP.com
• DFW will see more mosquitoes due to rains. Fort Worth Star Telegram. July 10, 2010.
• Post-Alex rains may ignite mosquito population explosion. Mike Jackson. AgriLife News. July 2, 2010
• The hated mosquito comes under scientific scrutiny.  Tara Dooley.  Houston Chronicle, July 6, 2010
• Great sunflower project invites public to help track bees.  Rebecca Perry. Dallas Morning News, July 8, 2010
• Nasty bagworm and webworm infestations, Ken Kalthoff.  NBCDFW.com June 25, 2010
• Weather partly to blame for bug boom.  Theodore Kim. Dallas Morning News, June 5, 2010
• Squash bugs.  Rebecca Perry.  Dallas Morning News June 3, 2010
• Mega-termite swarms spell trouble.  KDFW TV, May 10, 2010
• Club soda won’t kill fire ants. Dallas Morning News, March 10, 2010.

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