About Dr. Stuart Mitchell

The main challenge facing pest management professionals (PMPs) now through 2033 will be how to satisfy a growing public demand for zero pests. Pesticide manufacturers already are developing less-toxic, target-specific......

With clandestine and potential malicious pathogenesis, Telmatoscopus albipunctatus (meaning white-dotted sword in condition of decline) brings a crime wave of nuisance. Common within or near sewage corruption, moth flies assault......

“The house fly gut may provide a favorable environment for the evolution and emergence of pathogenic bacterial strains through acquisition of antibiotic resistance genes or virulence factors.” — Journal of......

The sting of a bee or wasp is usually a temporary irritation. There can be swelling, itching and pain for a few hours. But for about 1.5 percent of the......

A 2-year-old girl was showing signs of acute onset paralysis at a medical center. After a clinical examination and medical tests, her condition wasn’t determined. Thinking about a rare case......

These conspirators maliciously and covertly thieve and abscond with the lifeblood of humans and their companion animals. Fleas assail, feed and flee their feloniously assaulted victims. As adult perpetrators, these......

Cockroaches do expertly survive, changing minimally for 200 million years. If pest management professionals (PMPs) don’t expertly intervene, survival is certain. With more than 4,000 species globally, not all species......

Guilty of criminal assaults on our nutrition and breathing, these habitual violators spread feces, regurgitation and body fragments, defiling our food and air. Other offenses committed by these infesters include......

Virginia opossums, Didelphis virginiana (meaning double-wombed), range from the West Coast to the Central and Eastern United States. Habitats are numerous, ranging from areas low in rainfall to moisture abundant,......

From birth, these American marsupials are cryptic and elusive. Young are born at an early stage of development after a short period in the womb. These notorious-to-be young have rudimentary......