Days after learning it had recorded the state’s first human case of EEE in four years, a town outside of Worcester has recommended sports practices be held outside of evening hours and moved indoors if possible. Oxford is one of the four towns where the state Department of Public Health raised the risk level for … Read more
Hot summer weather has arrived across much of the country, as anyone who just endured the “heat bubble” can tell you. Warm weather is great in some ways, but the summer also has some downsides. In my area of the Northeast, for example, summer weather means the inevitable mosquito invasion has begun. There’s no question … Read more
VIRGINIA: A recent study conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University scientists found that a warmer environment may result in more mosquitos as predators struggle to maintain their number.As the cover feature in Ecology, a journal published by the Ecological Society of America, the study — “Warming and Top-Down Control of Stage-Structured Prey: Linking Theory to Patterns … Read more
