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A Utah woman has suffered an ordeal over the last year, and it's all because of a spider bite--at least that's what she believes. Some doctors agree; others are skeptical.

Customer had bought the inspection and protection plan

A new beehive has been designed to urge householders to consider keeping bees

USED IT AFTER HE DIED. THOUSANDS OF THE MOST POPULAR SHADE TREES IN ALBUQUERQUE LOOK LIKE THEY'RE DYING THIS SUMMER - BUT DON'T HAUL OUT THE CHAINSAW. STUART DYSON REPORTS FROM DOWNTOWN - WHERE AN INVASION OF TINY INSECTS IS MAKING LIFE MISERABLE FOR THE CITY'S SYCAMORE TREES. 'SICK SYCAMORES ALL OVER TOWN ARE LOOKING JUST LIKE THESE - THEY'RE SICK ALL RIGHT - BUT THEY'LL SURVIVE - DESPITE APPEARANCES THEY'RE NOT DYING - JUST LOSING THEIR LEAVES TO A TINY INSECT CALLED SYCAMORE SCALE.'YOU NEED A MAGNIFYING GLASS TO SEE 'EM - BUT WHAT THEY DO TO THE LEAVES IS EASILY VISIBLE AND THEY MAKE THE TREES LOOK POSITIVELY ILL. 'Honestly I never thought about it - ha ha - but it does look like it's dying - it does look pretty bad.''I didn't know if it was the sun - I didn't know what it was - the heat - the sun - not enough water - I did not know. SCALE - STOMACOCCUS PLATANI - IS A VICOUS CHOW-HOUND AND A DEDICATED SEX FIEND - THE FEMALES LAY UP TO A HUNDRED EGGS. ' The insects will definitely come back next year because they're gonna feed for awhile and then they're gonna law eggs on the back of this leaf or in the stem and in the fall the leaf drops and they're right there again - they're right on the stem - they're right on the ground - and next year they're gonna come right back - that's the trouble with these types of insects.' IT'S WORSE THAN USUAL THIS YEAR - TREE EXPERTS SAY PEOPLE ARE WATERING LESS - TREES GET STRESSED-OUT IN THE HEAT - MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER INSECT INVASIONS. 'THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO HELP YOUR SYCAMORE RIGHT NOW - BUT NEXT SPRING WHEN THE LEAVES START TO BUD YOU CAN SPRAY WITH HORTICULTURAL OIL - AND TAKE PLEASURE IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THE LITTLE SCALE-MEISTERS ARE SUFFOCATING - DOWNTOWN AT PARK AND TWELFTH -

You may not like all the rain we've had this summer, but the mosquitoes love it. Onondaga County keeps track of the mosquito population by setting traps. So far, the county's collected more than 93,000 mosquitoes. Last year -- a very dry season -- they got about 28,000. The average is about 70,000 mosquitoes.

As experts warn, there will be a swarm of mosquitoes coming to a summer picnic near you. KSL separates fact from fiction on why mosquitoes bite one person but not the next.

Residents of San Diego County are being asked to check their citrus trees for the Citrus Psyllid, a pest that spreads the disease "Greening."

Scientists to get ??8million to research the decline of the honey bees population in the UK

Minnesota and Iowa agriculture officials braced for the emerald ash borer's arrival Tuesday after Wisconsin biologists discovered the tree-eating beetle on the Mississippi River's edge.

Winter Park Ski Resort is doing its part to control the pine beetle epidemic.

Mosquitoes abundant after Valley storms

Reporter Sarah Gustin suits up, cracks open a hiveand takes us for a walk in the life of a beekeeper. For this keeper, it's truly a buzzing business. I decided to just kind of gradually expand, said Beekeeper Gregg Stewart. It took me about 10 years so probably the last three to four years I have been at about 600 hives, so I gradually grew from just a few hives up to where I am at now. Gregg Stewart got his bee keeping start in 1992 and what started as a hobby turned into a part time businessStewart Apairies. It's hard to explain, I just enjoy working with them, said Stewart. There is a lot of hobbyists throughout the nation that tell you I just love working with them. I am at the point now where I hope to make a little money doing it, but I still enjoy doing it. The bees spend the winter in California pollinating the almond groves. Then in the spring it is back to Bismarck to do what they do best. Stewart says they extract honey from the hives twice a year. So far Stewart has harvested one crop, and the next one is just around the corner. This was a real good sweet clover year, said Stewart. Sweet clover produces really good honey. It is the best clover year I have seen in the last ten years. In just two months time, 50,000 to 60,000 bees that live in just one hive can produce anywhere from 100 to 200 pounds of honey. Stewart says raising bees is very labor intensive work; everything is pretty much done by hand during the heat of the summer. And that's not the only downfall-of course we had to ask the question many of you are wondering: don't you ever get stung? It is just part of the, you are going to get stung occasionally, you just learn to deal with it, Stewart says. Some days it is never, never get stung at all, others it might be quite a few. Just depends on the temperament of the bees and what you are doing, it is just part of the business. Stewart says by November 1st the bees will be shipped on semis to California for the winter.

Beekeepers were at a home in Spartanburg on Friday morning moving nearly 60,000 bees that have moved into the walls.

Now producers can keep track of some of their problems...by going online. The first sunflower MOTH map is available for farmers on the National Sunflower Association website. A group of volunteers from south Texas to Manitoba are monitoring sunflower moth traps on a weekly basis. Larry Kleingartner with the national sunflower association says the Banded Moth has been spotted in North Dakota already this year. And he says one moth larvae damages about seven seeds. (Larry Kleingartner / National Sunflower Association) These insects are very cylical. Sometimes we see them and the next year we are all set for them, and nobody home. And so it is really a matter of getting farmers and crop scouts and county agents an indication are these insects are out there, and they have emerged and you need to scout. The map is updated on a weekly basis. And can be found on the National Sunflower Association's website.