COVID-19 is spreading badly in time for spring as well as the pests that come with Spring like ticks and mosquitoes. Since mosquitoes and ticks go from yard to yard attacking people, they will be violating our social distancing guidelines. The question is do these blood-sucking disease vectors spread COVID-19? According to the World Health […]

2019 Connecticut Mosquito Report Each year around this time I post about the Connecticut Agricultural Experimentation Station (CAES) and their findings for the year. This amazing organization started in 1875 making it the oldest agricultural experiment station in the United States. Since CAESs’ inception they have accomplished many extraordinary initiatives which helped to improve farming, […]

AISIAN LONGHORNED TICK IN CONNECTICUT? The Asian Longhorned tick is an invasive species that has spread recently to several states in New England. I brought this up last year when it was first found on a sheep in New Jersey in 2017 and started to spread north. The Asian Longhorned Tick has the potential to […]