WARM WEATHER and PESTS
Warm weather brings out the pests that can spoil your fun. These include insects like mosquitoes, ants, termites, cockroaches, ticks, spiders and bigger ones like mice, rats and raccoons.
Food is what will draw them into your living area. Food that isn't refrigerated should be sealed in air tight containers. Any crumbs or spills should also be cleaned up right away.
Remove any unnecessary sources of water around the yard. Both to prevent mosquitoes and discourage wild animals like raccoon and opossum from coming around.
Check for spiders and vacuum in corners high and low where their webs would be. You don't want to get bit, especially with a Brown Recluse.
Keep the grass short so ticks sand fleas have less shade. Remove debris around the yard that bugs like carpenter ants and termites would be attracted to.
DISEASES... from Mosquitoes in USA.
Zika
West Nile Virus
Viruses that cause Encephalitis
Dog Heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis)
Malaria
Dengue
Chikungunya
Yellow Fever
DISEASES... from Ticks
bacterial......
typus
Lyme
Relapsing fever
Helvetica
Rocky Mountain Spotted fever
Ehrlichiosis anaplasmosis
Bartonella
Tularemia
viral ......
Tick-borne meningoencephalitis
Powassan virus
Colorado tick fever
protozoan......
Babesiosis
Cytauxzoonosis
Pretty long lists and getting longer. Since 2004 to 2016 diseases from Ticks, Fleas and Mosquitoes have Tripled.
sources ... penny saver magazine
wikidepia
webmd.com
duckduckgo.com
Many useful tips. You wrote a small scientific article.
Thanks @eii
Amazing what all comes from the most
smallest of things.
Now why did I just have to itch :-))
Curious if you have heard of plum island?
Plum Island, off the tip of Orient Point. Govt. animal disease research area. Highly off bounds.
STOPExcellent your recommendations @manorvillemike, regarding the preventive measures that we must follow for the control or elimination of the pests ... in our country in the last years we have suffered certain diseases associated to the Mosquitoes: zika, dengue, Chikungunya and also they have been reported cases of malaria and Yellow Fever ... and in our area when the rains begin, these pests begin to proliferate.
Thank you and Greetings.
They are a real pain and hard to avoid.
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