In the summertime when the temperatures are good and hot, bugs seem to want to invade all the fun in the sun. Children are outside playing, especially in the evening time when temperatures are somewhat cooler, and so are the bugs. The bees are swarming to protect their hives and homes, ants, spiders are spinning [...]
Bites
What is a chigger and what is the treatment for a chigger bite? A chigger is a very tiny red parasitic larva of the harvest or scrub mite (also known as red mite) and is a threat to birds, reptiles, and a variety of mammals including humans. The nymph and adult form of the harvest [...]
What You Should Know The brown recluse spider, sometimes called a “”fiddle back” spider, is light tan to dark brown in color and has a dark violin-shaped mark on its back. It is about the size of a quarter; walks on long, thin legs; and hides in dark, dry, warm places like a closet or [...]
Are you sick of seeing flea bites all over your body? Or are you afraid of becoming a target for fleas? If you want to avoid all of this you first have to know more about flea bites in general and flea bites on humans in particularly. Most fleas live off the majority of pets, [...]
Ticked off by tick bites, well you should be. Tick-born illnesses are rampant in the United States, and are introduced to humans by way of tick bites. Though the actual processes involved in the transmission of tick viruses are not fully understood it is believed that tick bites transmit a saliva compound that aids in [...]
Sharks have lived among on this earth for over 300 million years. Since the fascination with the movie Jaws starring Richard Dreyfuss in 1975, many people are leery of beaches thinking they may be infringing upon shark infested waters. The truth of the matter is that there are less than a hundred reported shark attacks [...]
Strangely enough fire ants are a member of the wasp and bee family. Their scientific name is hymenoptera. They are vicious and will attack anyone or anything they feel is a threat to their colony. . South American Bullet ants have the most painful of all ant bites and insects in general. These ant bites [...]
For anyone living or vacationing in bear country it is important to know how to stay safe and to treat bear bites, mauling and wounds. Bears have great sense of smell, sight, and hearing, they are good runners and great swimmers. No doubt they can outrun a human when in pursuit. The bear is a [...]
Bed bugs are known by several names: red bug, crimson ramblers, wall louse, mahogany flat and more. One upon a time the bed bug population in large cities had disappeared, or so we thought. Now they are back again. They live in mattresses all over the city in private homes, missions and shelters, big hotels [...]
Every year hospitals and emergency centers have an influx of people who suffer from animal bites from one source or another. These bites may be wild animals or house pets. The common carriers of rabies include raccoons, skunks, squirrels, rabbits, foxes, bats and domesticated animals that have not been inoculated. Either way; wild or domestic, [...]
