The little green bugs, the scourge of many a human gardener, feed on plant sap and excrete a sugary liquid called honeydew from their anuses, which the ants drink in exchange for providing protection from predators and shepherding them to leafy pastures new.
City hall went into full crisis mode, since bed bugs are an unending scourge that can haunt you both physically and mentally, and the building was evacuated.
Couple that with their rampant rate of reproduction and the frenetic lifestyle of the modern human, and the scourge of bed bugs isn't exactly likely to disappear in the near future.
This is the second coral disease shown to be linked to bacteria found in sewage, he notes; last month, researchers reported that sewage-associated bugs cause black band disease, another coral scourge on the rise (ScienceNOW, 22 May).
Also Chagas disease, whose agent Trypanosoma cruzi is transmitted by triatomine bugs living in the mud walls of far too many homes in Latin America―not to mention the ever-present scourge of malaria with its ubiquitous and very adaptable vector mosquitoes.
STAR WARS: SCOURGE, by Jeff Grubb.
Diabetes is a particular scourge.
