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FREE Webinar series- All Bugs Good & Bad

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Have you been watching the FREE webinar series All Bugs Good & Bad?  It happens the first Friday of each month at 1PM Central time.  If you are just now joining in, don’t fret because past webinars are available online. The next webinar is all about invasive ants.  I know here in Texas we have a fair amount of invasive ants, so this one would be a good one to watch.  Here’s the skinny: WHEN: Friday, October 6, 2017 WHERE: online click here New invasive ant species?  Yes,… Read More →

FREE WEBINAR on managing cockroaches and ants

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Cockroaches and ants! We don’t want them in our houses. Learn practical tips for preventing problems from these pests in this webinar presented by Elizabeth “Wizzie” Brown from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Note: on October 2, the link to the live webinar opens about 15 minutes before the webinar. If you try to log in earlier, you will get an error message. For more webinars in this series, see All Bugs Good and Bad 2015 Webinar Series. The webinars are brought to you by the following eXtension Communities… Read More →

Argentine ants

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I’ve been getting samples submitted where people suspect that they have Tawny crazy ants infesting their property. They report light brown ants in dense populations getting into everything. Once the samples are submitted, I discover that they are Argentine ants. So why are people mistaking Argentines for Tawnies? Well to the inexperienced they can look very similar especially when you don’t have a good hand lens or microscope to look for hairs on the body. Also, both of them can have high population numbers and supercolonies. Argentine ants… Read More →