Posts Tagged ‘Insects’

Don’t Let The Bed Bugs Bite You

'Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite' is something that people said often to their children in the first half of the 20th Century. Some mothers still say it even now, but before they really meant it, because there were bed bugs - everywhere. Western cities were severely stricken with them and had been for three hundred years or longer.

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Eradicating Bed Bugs

Although people are badly affected by an infestation of bed bugs, the medical authorities declare that they are not a significant health hazard. Tell that to those who are suffering from bed bugs! Bed bugs are not known to transmit disease, that is true, but they instigate paranoia and insomnia which can have far ranging results.

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Looking At Bed Bugs Up Close

There are in fact quite a few types of bed bug, but the one that most people are referring to by 'bedbugs' is Cimex lectularius. Other species of bedbugs will extract human blood, but usually only if their favoured host, like poultry, is not around.

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Sleep Tight And Don’t Let The Bed Bugs Bite

Did your parents or your grandparents use to say 'Sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite' when they tucked you up in bed as a child? You had probably never seen a bed bug and perhaps did not even know what they were talking about, but they would have. This is because anybody living prior to the Second World War would probably have been bitten quite often.

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How Do You Get Ants For Your Ant Farm?

Buying the right kind of ant farm is an important step in the establishment of an ant farm and there are a variety of types of ant farms to suit the different species of ants. For example, some ants construct large anthills, while the anthills of other types of ants are more or less non-existent.

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Bed Bugs And Public Health

Bed bugs have probably been plaguing people for ever, especially in warmer countries. In fact Aristotle wrote about them in 400 BC, but they were not common in the United Kingdom until after the Great Fire of London in 1666. People deduced that bed bugs lived in wood because the bed bug plagues only commenced after 1670; they supposed that the bed bugs that had come in with timber imported to reconstruct London.

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Professional Bee Removal Services Pay Attention To Honey Bee Life Cycles

While many people are knowledgeable about the significant role that honeybees play in the ecosystem, nests found in or near homes or offices may be scary and dangerous for homeowners or employees. Nowadays many bee removal services must be trained in the life cycle of bees, in addition to other factors, to be best equipped to handle the hives with minimal damage and stress to the bees.

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Feeding The Ants In Your Ant Farm

Ants are cold-blooded animals which means that they cannot keep themselves warm. If their surroundings are cold, they go into a very lazy way of life and practically hibernate, whereas when it is warm they run about the garden looking for food to take home to the nest. The weather of the country that they live in along with its seasons determines which species of ants can live there and how they will act and when.

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How Many Eggs Do Bed Bugs Lay?

Do you know whether you have ever come across a bed bug? You probably have not. Not yet, but the chances that you will are growing every day. This is because bed bugs are experiencing an upsurge in their numbers and mankind is fairly helpless to stop them at the moment, although a number of people are working on it.

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The Resurgence Of Bedbugs In America

Bed bugs are making a massive revival in the West. They were practically wiped out in the Fifties due to the widespread use of DDT, which has subsequently been proscribed. It took them forty to fifty years to recover, but in 1995 they started their comeback. In 2004, there were 82 instances of bed bugs in New York, but only five years later, in 2009, that figure had mushroomed to 10,985.

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