health care, pest control, viruses
We tend to just think of viruses in terms of their damaging impacts on human health and lives. The 1918 flu pandemic killed around 50 million people. Smallpox claimed 30 percent of those who caught it, and survivors were often scarred and blinded. More recently, we’re all too familiar with the health and economic impacts ...
Nowadays, farmers and individual crop growers have embraced pesticide-free and eco-friendly farming measures. These farms are using natural measures to boost harvests and eliminate pests. A South Africa-based vineyard has adopted a unique measure. They employ a horde of ducks to save their grapes from pests. The wine estate named Vergenoegd Löw is located outside ...
You may start seeing ants in your home when the weather heats up. Although it’s easy to see them as a nuisance and treat them as a pest, they are believed to have originated at the end of the Mesozoic Era, in a time known as the Cretaceous, some 145 to 66 million years ago. According ...