Some are vacuumed. Some are swept. Others are crushed, baited or trapped. The rest are kept out with caulk, window screens, door sweeps or, as a last resort, sprayed with chemicals. In some schools, the spray comes first. “We have a season that never stops,” said University of Arizona entomologist Dawn Gouge, about school pests…
A scorpion hangs from Ken MacNeil’s scraggly beard, hidden in the tangled web of his whiskers. An invited guest, it explores its newly found playground. All of the bugs and crawly creatures in MacNeil’s Tucson’s Exotic Pet Shop are friends and family for the owner, who turned his childhood fascination for bugs into a booming…
[KGVID width=”640″ height=”360″]http://demo.sbs.arizona.edu/arizonasonoranewsservice/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/UAIC-BUGS.mov[/KGVID] How do you keep track of more than two million bugs? “Very carefully,” said Dr. Wendy Moore, curator of the University of Arizona Insect Collection, which used a $468,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a yearlong facelift. The museum reopened to the public at the start of the 2013 fall semester…
