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(Radio Iowa) — An Iowa State University mosquito expert says you really can make a difference in the amount of mosquitoes around your home. Assistant professor of entomology, Ryan Smith says mosquito populations are starting to pick up some in different areas of the state. “I think it really just kind of depends on the given location, I think the temperatures are getting a little bit warmer, we’ve had some rain, but not quite as much in the recent week. So I think the increased temperatures are allowing the mosquitoes to finally show their ugly heads,” Smith says. He says mosquitoes need to get blood from somewhere to help them reproduce.
“Just a single female mosquito can lay anywhere between 50 to 100 eggs,” he says. “That one female might feed multiple times during her lifetime. And each time that she feeds on one of us — taking a blood meal — that provides a nutrient source to produce eggs.” Smith said “Each time that they bite us they are actually trying to have offspring, and so, a female mosquito might feed multiple times in their life, and just that one mosquito might produce maybe 300 mosquitoes.” So one way you can keep the female mosquito from reproducing is by not becoming a meal. Smith says you can do this by wearing repellent and proper clothing.
Smith says some of the mosquitoes don’t feed exclusively on human and can feed on birds or dogs and cats. “But really, just preventing any biting and removing any standing water around the home can actually make an important difference in kind of eliminating mosquitoes,” Smith explained. Most of the mosquitoes that are buzzing about now are what Smith calls nuisance species. “They will bite humans — but they don’t really transmit disease — and so, that’s kind of why I use the word nuisance. They will bite and feed off of people, but there’s no real major kind of health concern,” Smith says.
Smith says the mosquitoes that DO carry West Nile are already showing up in some places. “Populations that can be important for West Nile Virus transmission — we start to see them already — but really as the summer time progresses, their number and populations will continue to build,” Smith says. His studies of mosquitoes show that the mosquitoes that carry the West Nile Virus are most prevalent on the western side of the state and the populations drop down as you get to central and eastern Iowa.
ROCK VALLEY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have arrested a caseworker who they say beat a client in northwest Iowa. Sioux County court records say 27-year-old Aaron Albaugh is charged with felony dependent adult abuse. A court document says Albaugh worked for Hope Haven, which offers a variety of services, when he met with the 23-year-old man May 5 at an apartment in Rock Valley. The document says the man suffered sinus and skull fractures from the assault.
The document doesn’t say what else occurred during the encounter.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa fired volleyball coach Bond Shymansky on Wednesday, saying an independent investigation by an outside law firm determined he committed a major NCAA rules violation. Iowa said Shymansky intentionally provided an impermissible benefit to a prospect who went on to compete for the Hawkeyes. Iowa reported the violation to the NCAA and said it is cooperating. The NCAA has asked Iowa not to comment further until it releases its findings.
“We take NCAA violations very seriously, and have acted in a fair and decisive manner,” Iowa athletic director Gary Barta said. “We will continue to work with the NCAA in regard to our self-report to reach a conclusion in this matter as swiftly as possible.”
Barta announced that Vicki Brown, who was named interim head coach last month, will remain in that role next season. Shymansky went 78-83 in five seasons at Iowa.
Today: **DENSE FOG ADVISORY until 9-a.m.; Partly cloudy to cloudy, w/scattered showers & thunderstorms this afternoon. High 82. S @ 10-15.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. Low 65. S @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High 80. S @ 10-20.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High around 80.
Sunday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. Shwrs & tstrms. High again around 80.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 75. Our Low overnight 58. We received .02″ rain yesterday, at the KJAN studios. Last year on this date our High was 76 and the Low was 60. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 101 in 1937 & 1988. The Record Low was 40 in 1961.
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Glenwood 9-6, Clarinda 0-8
Harlan 6-5, Sioux City East 3-2
Lewis Central 2, Kuemper Catholic 0 (900th win for LC Coach Lee Toole)
St. Albert 11-3, Denison-Schleswig 6-1
Western Iowa Conference
Logan-Magnolia 11-8, AHSTW 10-2
Tri-Center 4, Missouri Valley 1
Underwood 10, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 6
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 11, West Central Valley 2
Coon Rapids-Bayard 3, Ar-We-Va 1
West Harrison 16, Glidden-Ralston 1
Woodbine 9, Boyer Valley 1
Other Scores
Boone 5, ADM 4 (9 inn)
Carroll 10, Perry 1
Kingsley-Pierson 10, West Monona, Onawa 1
MVAOCOU 11, Westwood, Sloan 1
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic 8, Kuemper Catholic 4
Glenwood 12-12, Clarinda 0-1
Harlan 10, CB Abraham Lincoln 0
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 10, Lewis Central 0
St. Albert 2, Underwood 1
Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 12, IKM-Manning 1
Treynor 7, Riverside 0
Missouri Valley 16, Tri-Center 8
Rolling Valley Conference
Ar-We-Va 4, Coon Rapids-Bayard 3
West Harrison 8, Glidden-Ralston 7
Woodbine 13, Boyer Valley 3
Other Scores
ADM 10, Boone 0
Boone 6, ADM 5
Carroll 12, Perry 3
East Mills 10, Whiting 5
Lenox 10, Fremont-Mills 0
Nodaway Valley 15, Orient-Macksburg 10
West Monona 3, Kingsley-Pierson 0
Westwood 7, MVAOCOU 3
Woodbury Central 12, OABCIG 5
(Radio Iowa) — Iowa Congresswoman Cindy Axne says more needs to be done to help Missouri River flooding victims — beyond what’s included in the recently-approved federal disaster aid package. “We were able, of course, to get the disaster package through. However, it’s going to take a little bit of time for that money to get out to the communities, so people are struggling, figuring out where they’re going to live, how they’re going to go after the funding that they need. There are still discrepancies with that.”
Axne was in Sidney this week to met with flood victims from Fremont and Mills Counties. Axne says there’s a lack of communication among the agencies responding to the disaster. “Unfortunately, at the local level what we try to do is pick up those pieces and develop some type of cohesiveness for folks who have been affected by the disaster,” she says, “because it’s really difficult for them to figure out where they need to go to get the funding they need.”
Axne along with the governor and Iowa’s two U.S. Senators are pressuring the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to change its Missouri River management practices — so flood control is the top priority. “They’re working off of old processes where they don’t notify people of imminent danger as early as they could,” Axne says. “We need to revise their mapping. They’re working off mapping that’s from the ’90s and so they’re not looking at the environmental issues of today that are different.”
Officials in two southwest Iowa counties this week asked state officials to start the paperwork for federal buy-outs of flood-damaged homes that would be demolished. Mills County officials have identified up to 150 properties, primarily in rural areas, for potential clearing after federal buy-outs. Between 50 and 60 properties in Fremont County — mostly in Hamburg — were identified as potential candidates for a federal buy-out.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt hit a solo home run with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 2-1 victory over the Miami Marlins. Dexter Fowler had an RBI single in the sixth for the Cardinals, who won for the seventh time in 11 games.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Brian Klein hit the tie-breaking home run for Texas Tech and the Red Raiders beat Florida State 4-1 at the College World Series to close the 40-year coaching career of NCAA all-time wins leader Mike Martin. Klein’s homer was his second of the CWS and third of the season. Martin heads into retirement with 2,029 career wins. It’s the most by any coach in any college sport. Each of his 40 teams won at least 40 games and played in the NCAA Tournament.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Kumar Rocker followed up his no-hitter in super regionals with another strong start in his College World Series debut and Stephen Scott homered twice and drove in four runs in Vanderbilt’s 6-3 win over Mississippi State. The win allowed the No. 2 national seed Commodores to gain the inside track to the best-of-three finals next week. Rocker won his fifth straight start and is 9-1 over his last 10.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Louisville has eliminated Auburn from the College World Series in a 5-3 win as the two teams completed a game suspended by rain the day before. The No. 7 national seed Cardinals improved to 32-1 all-time when scoring five or more runs in an NCAA Tournament game. Auburn went 0-2 in its first CWS appearance since 1997.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa has fired volleyball coach Bond Shymansky. The Hawkeyes say an independent investigation by an outside law firm determined he committed a major NCAA rules violation. Iowa says Shymansky intentionally provided an impermissible benefit to a prospect who went on to compete for the Hawkeyes. Iowa has reported the violation to the NCAA.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — NASCAR has denied Ross Chastain’s appeal after his race-winning truck was disqualified following a postrace inspection at Iowa Speedway over the weekend. National Motorsports Appeals Panelist Bryan Moss upheld the penalties assessed by NASCAR for the No. 44 being too low. NASCAR says the last time it disqualified an apparent race winner was in 1960. The decision is a major blow to Chastain’s playoff hopes in the Truck Series.
SEATTLE (AP) — Domingo Santana hit two home runs in a game for the third time this season, Marco Gonzales won his third straight start and the Seattle Mariners avoided an embarrassing series sweep with an 8-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Santana, who had five RBIs, and Daniel Vogelbach hit back-to-back homers in the first inning to give the Mariners a 4-0 lead and they went on to snap Kansas City’s three-game winning streak.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A group led by St. Louis Blues chairman Tom Stillman now owns 100 percent of the reigning Stanley Cup champions. The group has purchased the remaining shares of the team from Sports Capital Holdings, which owned the Blues from 2006-2012. The NHL Board of Governors approved the transaction at its annual June meeting in Las Vegas.
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