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Urban and Community Integrated Pest Management
Posts Tagged: swarm
Spring Swarms

While we are staying home during the pandemic, insects are most definitely not! In fact, you may have seen different types of insects swarming over the last few weeks. Swarming is a reproductive behavior where certain insects leave their colonies...
Bees on the Baseball Field

It's not often that we get to mix baseball and pests in our blog, but today we learned that the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds game was delayed by almost 20 minutes due to swarming bees. You can read different takes on this story from the...
Honey bees are beneficial pollinators. (Credit: Jack Kelly Clark)