Monthly Archives: May 2017

How do stored product pests get water?

Written by Joe Ballenger Here’s a question I *really* like: Indian meal moths and grain weevils get into stored grain products and manage to complete entire life cycles without any access to moisture. How do they manage that? I really … Continue reading

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Do male insects have sex hormones?

Written by Joe Ballenger This is a really good question, for a number of reasons. There are sources which claim that male insects don’t contain sex hormones, but as far as I can tell, this goes back to a 1995 … Continue reading

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