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To Fear Or Not To Fear, That Is The Question

August 25, 2019Insect Pests, Insects, Integrated Pest Management

TO FEAR OR NOT TO FEAR, THAT IS THE QUESTION By James A. Bethke   Many years ago, I collected black widows, Latrodectus hesperus, from my yard (almost 50) and gave them to Rick Vetter, a friend from the Entomology Department at UC Riverside, so that he could extract spider venom in search of a […]

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