Ticks are out thick already in the Wabash Valley
Here are ways you can avoid ticks if you will be out in wooded areas throughout the Wabash Valley.
Posted: May 9, 2021 7:24 AM
Updated: May 10, 2021 8:56 AM
Posted By: David Siple
WABASH VALLEY (WTHI) - We are well into the season for “Ticks”. And May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Here s what you need to know to stay prepared.
Right now, ticks are in and around heavily wooded areas as well as tall grass and brush. You should wear light-colored clothing to make them easier to find on your body.
Using an E.P.A. registered insect repellant containing 20% DEET is a great way to avoid getting ticks on your body. If you have one on your skin, remove it within a 24-hour period reduces the risk of potential disease transmission.
After 17 years in hiding, the Brood X Cicadas are surfacing across the Wabash Valley
Brood X Cicadas are starting to emerge in the Wabash Valley. Here is all you need to know.
Posted: Apr 29, 2021 5:57 PM
Posted By: David Siple
WABASH VALLEY (WTHI) - It s a rare event that only happens every 17 years and the Wabash Valley will soon be hearing a very different type of cicada.
Storm Team 10 s David Siple spoke with Associate Professor of Biology at Rose-Hulman, Peter Coppinger, to see what the buzz was about with the Brood X Cicadas. There are a couple of periodical cicadas that have much longer life spans. 13 and 17 years and right now this is the time for the 17-year cicadas to come out.
By Local News | MyWabashValley.com
Apr 15, 2021 11:44 AM
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology professors Paul Christensen and Wayne Tarrant will be spending the 2021-22 academic year in Japan and Kenya, respectively, as Fulbright Faculty Scholars.
They join a long list of current colleagues who have been selected to participate in the United States government’s flagship international exchange program.
Rose-Hulman, the nation’s top-ranked undergraduate engineering college, has been recognized as a top producer of Fulbright scholars by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Christensen, associate professor of anthropology, is planning to spend March through June of 2022 doing fieldwork in Japan for a project titled Diverging Tokyo: Poverty, Revitalization and the Shaping of a Meaningful Existence Project Narrative. His findings will become the basis for a future book project examining a meaningful existence in contemporary Japan.