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Topic: Pests

In this photograph taken on June 4, 2023, shows locusts feeding on grassland during a locusts swarm at Kandali area in Sholgara district, Balkh province. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change will help locusts

Matthew Rozsa
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Genetically altered mosquito plan nixed

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
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Why some people are mosquito magnets

Jonathan Day - The Conversation
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

How vermin helped shape the modern world

Emily Cataneo - Undark
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Sewer rat vs Pet rat (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Rats in our house, rats in our streets

Ellen Friedrichs
(Julia Gartland / Food52)

How to get rid of ants in the kitchen

Ariel Scotti - Food52
(Julia Gartland / Food52)

How to deal with pantry pests

Rebecca Firkser - Food52
House plants in pots with a bee sitting inside one of the flowers (Getty Images/Shraddha Dharmameher/FOAP)

Finding nature in quarantine

Keith A. Spencer
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