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Travis Cain leads Hunter through a hotel room to inspect for bedbugs Wednesday. The Ogden hotel uses bedbug-sniffing dogs as part of its integrated pest-management program. Mobile bedbugs can be found anywhere, even high-end hotels. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Beagle's nose knows where bedbugs are in Top of Utah

Last updated Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 11:15am

OGDEN — Bedbugs do bite.

Because of that, Hunter, a uniquely trained 2-year-old bedbug-sniffing beagle, is finding steady work in the Top of Utah.

No one would know it at a glance — the truck Hunter rides in to appointments has no markings to indicate the dog is a bedbug hunter. But the 20-pound pooch is not an exterminator.

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Brad Barton prepares his bee smoker at home in South Ogden on Thursday.

Beekeepers are hungry for homeowners' hives

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, May 7, 2012 - 6:19am

OGDEN -- As temperatures start to rise, so does the activity level of bees, but many licensed area beekeepers caution: Don't kill the bees!

The care of these honey-producers and pollinators is a tricky process, but many people across the Top of Utah are certified to care of bees and are glad to come and remove the hives that appear in yards.

Killing bees only adds to a growing problem of these helpful creatures disappearing, said Brad Barton, a licensed beekeeper for 15 years.

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Crop-eating stink bugs a new menace

Michelle Villareal Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, Texas)

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 4:58pm

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- A northern species of stink bugs that can harm crops has made its first Texas appearance, but there isn't an immediate threat to agriculture, experts said.

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Ancient aspen grove in central Utah slowly dying

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 26, 2011 - 11:29am

LOA -- The U.S. Forest Service is trying to save one of the world's largest and oldest organisms, a 106-acre aspen thicket being threatened by pests, wildlife and climate change on a mountain slope in central Utah.

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(ALLEN BREED/The Associated Press) In this Sept. 30, 2011 photo, Clemson University doctoral student Nick Seiter shows a sweep net filled with “kudzu bugs” caught in a test plot in Blackville, S.C. Seiter is studying the invasive Asian bug, which is wreaking havoc on soybean crops.

Kudzu bug’ threatens to eat US farmers’ lunch

Allen G. Breed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 9:52am

BLACKVILLE, S.C. — Kudzu — the “plant that ate the South” — has finally met a pest that’s just as voracious. Trouble is, the so-called “kudzu bug” is also fond of another East Asian transplant that we happen to like, and that is big money for American farmers.

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(KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner) A plane sprays pesticide against mosquitoes in Taylor last week,.

Fewer weapons against mosquitoes

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Saturday, June 11, 2011 - 7:48pm

Crews in Davis and Weber counties have fewer tools to fight mosquitoes this year and, due to the high cost of re-registering pesticide products, they fear losing even more from their arsenal in coming years.

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