Spain Faces an Unprecedented Plague of Shoemakers and Calls for Urgent Action in These Areas

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The residents of several areas of the Spanish Levante have been seeing a red and black insect in courtyards, gardens, sidewalks, solar and even inside some houses. It is popularly known as a shoemaker, although in this case we speak of the chinche of the Malvas, whose scientific name is Pyrrhocoris apterus. The City Council of Cartagena has confirmed a "strong hatching of insects" this year, favored by a particularly rainy winter and by the incr…