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Learn to control those embarrassing home invaders-insects
When we build those beautiful houses, we expect to live in them alone happily with all family members.
But in one way or another, our lifestyles tend to invite the attention of crawling insects like cockroaches, earwigs and ants.
As if these are not embarrassingly obvious, others like bedbugs waits until you lay on that comfortable wooden bed to bite your skin.
It is not only disgrace that some of these insects cause, even ailments related to dirt and mess because they interfere with your life everywhere.
In this article I feature only the highly prolific and insistent cockroaches.
The cockroaches
These are the most frequent and unrelenting in many homes and they often are correlated with cluttered and unhygienic people.
Those who are biological experts state that these can be found in over three thousand species but hardly any of these are domestic insects.
Your home would be one in a million if it does lack one of these cockroaches which normally hide in cracks, crevices and other hidden areas that are essentially warm and moist during the day.
But this is not always the case, since they like feeding all the time you can see them crawling over the kitchen surfaces, utensils, food and the so on.
The most favorable times though are during the night when you are sleeping and not moving or cleaning things.
They carry their children and their many eggs along as well to mate and feed on any noticeable left over foods lying on the kitchen floor and other surfaces.
To successfully control roaches, awareness of these insects “hibernating” behavior is very important.
Problematic cockroaches
These crawling insects becomes major problem when they start showing up unexpectedly on your beddings, floor, walls, cabinets and typically just creeping on every visible place.
Supposing you are one of those respectable people in high places, these cockroaches do not give a hoot about your class, they will only be happy to be accompanying you and your elegant visitors on the dinner table.
They are chaotic, have repulsive odors and could spread harmful bacteria like salmonella which are a major source of allergies and asthma.
They eat the organic content in form of spills, scraps and poorly preserved meals and drinks found in homes.
This means that these can crawl over to your lavatory, feed on any human waste and then back to your kitchen floors, surfaces, utensils and other items used for human consumption.
Keeping them under control
The people who are lazy and reluctant to maintaining cleanliness normally drop fragments of foods, sugars and leave dirty utensils lying all over the kitchen surfaces and sink.
Because of this, they will never lack a cordial relationship similar to the one offered by crawling insects such as cockroaches.
This is why I think the first step in controlling them is observing good hygiene ahead of nice home improvements like removing unnecessary clutter.
It is possible to use all kinds of insecticides in vain because the few that survive can still spot more food to devour.
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This is an original article written by Esteri Maina onINSECTS. Esteri Maina is an author with a great gift and full of inspiration.
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What Do Ticks Look Like? by Barbara Busby
Lyme disease is becoming very common. Let's learn about what do ticks look like and which ones can present health problems.
Ticks are arachnids like scorpions, spiders and mites. They are not insects.They have four pairs of legs as adults and have no antennae, whereas adult insects have three pairs of legs and one pair of antennae. Ticks are very efficient carriers of disease. When sucking blood they attach very firmly, feed slowly. Ticks take several days to complete feeding and may go unnoticed for a considerable amount of time.
In learning what do ticks look like we need to know that they have four life stages: egg, six-legged larva, eight-legged nymph and adult. The tiny larva, sometimes called a "seed tick," feeds on an appropriate host after the egg hatches,. The larva then molts or develops into the larger nymph. The nymph feeds on a host and then molts into an even larger adult. Both male and female adults will attach to a host. The females lay eggs sometime after feeding. Ticks wait on the tips of grasses and shrubs and are not on trees. When an animal or person brushes against the vegetation they can quickly let go and climb onto the host. Ticks cannot fly or jump; they can only crawl. On winter days Ticks can be active when the ground temperatures are about 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Now let's get more specific about what do ticks look like, the types of ticks and who or what do they latch onto.
The American Dog Tick is one of the most frequently encountered types of ticks. The larvae and nymphs like to feed on small warm-blooded animals such as mice and birds. The adults feed on humans and medium to large mammals such as raccoons and dogs. Unfed males and females are reddish-brown and about 3/16-inch long. The females have a large silver-colored spot behind the head and will become ˝-inch long after feeding or about the size of a small grape. Males have fine silver lines on the back and really do not get much larger after feeding. It is important to know of the types of ticks this is one type of tick can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia and possibly ehrlichiosis to humans.
The Lone Star Tick is very tiny, only a little larger than the period at the end of this sentence. The nymph is about pinhead-sized and is the most common stage found on humans. Adults are about 1/8-inch long and brown and the adult female has a white spot in the middle of her back. This tick can also transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but is not as likely to transmit the disease as the American dog tick. It may also transmit tularemia and ehrlichiosis to humans but is not thought to be a transmitter of Lyme disease bacteria.
Of the types of ticks the black legged Tick, also known as the Deer Tick, is the most infamous. I call it the Lyme Disease tick. It has three active stages and will feed on a variety of hosts including people. The very tiny larvae feed primarily on white-footed mice or other small mammals after hatching in the spring. The next spring, the larvae molt into pinhead-sized, brown nymphs that will feed on mice, larger warm-blooded animals and people. They then molt into adults in the fall and feed primarily on deer, with the females laying eggs the following spring. Adults are reddish-brown and about 1/8-inch long.
They are found in wooded areas along trails and the larvae and nymphs are active in the spring and early summer; adults may be active in both the spring and fall. The black legged / deer tick is infamous because it can transmit Lyme disease and possibly ehrlichiosis to humans.
