Tag: Ctenocephalides felis

Essential Oils: An Untapped Resource for Managing Urban Insect Pests

A new research review outlines current knowledge on essential oils as alternatives to synthetic insecticides for managing insect pests such as ants, termites, and cockroaches. Essential oils show a lot of promise, but more research on real-world applications is sorely needed.

Entomology Today July 14, 2022 7 Comments

Scientists Suggest Re-Thinking Which Flea-Borne Bacterium Causes Fevers in Humans

By Josh Lancette In Southern California over the past five years, there have been nearly 500 cases of flea-borne rickettsioses, more commonly known as flea-borne typhus. Rickettsia felis has become […]