Mississippi Business Journal » mammal http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 11:30:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Farmers concerned about disease that threatens bats http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/26/farmers-concerned-about-disease-that-threatens-bats/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=farmers-concerned-about-disease-that-threatens-bats http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/26/farmers-concerned-about-disease-that-threatens-bats/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:03:11 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=64325 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Bats, an organic method of pest control, may become rare in the United States and Canada. The primary predators of night-flying insects, bats reduce the need for chemical pesticides and save the agriculture industry an estimated $3 billion per year in pest-control costs. But bat populations across the Eastern United States are [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/26/farmers-concerned-about-disease-that-threatens-bats/feed/ 0 Tens of thousands of dead nutria litter the Coast http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/04/tens-of-thousands-of-dead-nutria-litter-the-coast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tens-of-thousands-of-dead-nutria-litter-the-coast http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/04/tens-of-thousands-of-dead-nutria-litter-the-coast/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:09:35 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62180 HANCOCK COUNTY — Crews are pitchforking dead nutria into front-end loaders on Hancock County beaches. The Sun Herald reports an estimated 16,000 to 18,000 of the semiaquatic rodents and other dead animals washed in Hancock County up after drowning in Hurricane Isaac’s storm surge. A federal contractor, U.S. Environmental Services, will dump the bodies in [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/04/tens-of-thousands-of-dead-nutria-litter-the-coast/feed/ 0 City’s deer-culling program readying for potentially busy season http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/30/citys-deer-culling-program-readying-for-potentially-busy-season/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=citys-deer-culling-program-readying-for-potentially-busy-season http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/30/citys-deer-culling-program-readying-for-potentially-busy-season/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:04:27 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=60482 OXFORD — A warm winter and an abundant food supply have resulted in a larger deer population in Oxford. Jimmy Allgood, Oxford’s emergency management coordinator, tells the Oxford Eagle more fawns have been spotted this year. Allgood has been headed the city’s deer management program for almost four years. Allgood has worked along with the [...]

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