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Thursday, July 3, 2025

National/International

The US plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it will work
7/2/25 Associated Press
In one sense, raising a large colony of flies is relatively easy, said Cassandra Olds, an assistant professor of entomology at Kansas State University. But, she added, “You’ve got to give the female the cues that she needs to lay her eggs, and then the larvae have to have enough nutrients.”

New York Is Hungry for a Big Grocery Experiment
7/2/25 The Atlantic and MSN
"It’s a retention strategy, but it’s also a recruitment strategy,” Rial Carver, the program leader at Kansas State University’s Rural Grocery Initiative, told me.

State/Regional

Could Wichita’s rainy June mean more mosquitoes this summer? What an expert says
Wichita Eagle 7/2/25
“Most of the life stages of mosquitoes occur in water,” Raymond Cloyd, entomology professor with Kansas State University, recently told The Eagle. “So anytime there’s moisture and the temperatures hover between 70 and 80 degrees, that’s going to be conducive for development of the mosquitoes. Especially areas of where the stagnant water or warm water accumulates, those are areas that are prime breeding grounds for most mosquitoes.”