Bites

Watch Out For Those Insect Bites

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 [...]

Treatment For Chigger 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 [...]

Wood Spider Bites

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 woodpile. [...]

Treatment of Flea Bites on Human

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, [...]

Horsefly Bites

Question
I have recently returned from a trip to Germany. During the trip I was bitten on two separate occasions by Horse Flies. The initial bite is now a lump that resembles a large bruise about four centimetres in diameter. This is sore to the touch but does not itch.
The more recent bite is growing into [...]

Ticked Off By Tick Bites?

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 [...]

Watch Out For Shark Bites Swim Safely

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 [...]

Another one Bites the Dust or do the Dust Mites Bite Me?

Another one bites the dust was a great song by the rock group Queen, but not such a great feeling when a human has been bitten by a dust mite. These little insects can be very irritating for their human hosts. It takes trained personnel in a laboratory setting to identify a mite bite. [...]

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