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The Favorite Hiding Places of Ticks
Ticks are the vampire of the pet world. They latch onto your dog or cat, attach themselves and suck their blood until they’re engorged with your pet’s blood. Then they fall off and rest until they’ve digested their meal.What happens next is they may quietly die, or they may feel ready for another feeding. It depends on the life cycle of the tick, the type of tick, and other such factors.
Holiday Decorations Create Many Hiding Places For Pests
Christmas is just around the corner; have you set up your Christmas tree and taken all those old Christmas decorations out of storage? If you haven’t, the pros at McCall Services would like to remind you to keep an eye out for pests as you unpack your decorations.
16 Ridiculous Cats Who Are Convinced They’ve Found The Perfect Hiding Place
If I can’t see you, then you can’t see me. Just pretend you’re part of the door handle and they’ll walk right on by... It’s certainly true that the higher
Why you need to know about mice, ticks, warm temperatures and Lyme disease
Pests are thriving as their climates get warmer — and that means fears of more illness.
Why Are There So Many Ticks These Days?
What Do Ticks And Mosquitoes Have In Common?
When looking at these two pests, it is easy to see all the ways they are different. One is an insect with six legs while the other is an arachnid with…
How To Get Rid Of Ticks In My Garden
Ticks are nasty little pests that feed on the blood of vertebrates – including you and your pets. If you’re anxious to learn about preventing ticks or you want to know how to get rid of ticks, this article has more information.
How to get rid of ticks on your property
How to halt ticks and detect Lyme disease
Preventing, diagnosing and treating hazardous bites from these warm-weather parasites.
Look What the Mouse Brought in… Ticks
A cold winter is responsible for bringing more rodents than usual indoors, and when mice come indoors, so can ticks.
Bookworm: What we don't know about ticks as weapons can fill a book
How Ticks Dig In With a Mouth Full of Hooks
Why can't you just flick a tick? Because it attaches to you with a mouth covered in hooks, while it fattens up on your blood. For days. But don't worry – the...
When Tick Spray Is and Is Not Safe
Find out how permethrin sprays differ and which can be used on sheets and sleeping bags versus clothing
Homeowners Guide To Tick Prevention
When it comes to protecting yourself and the ones you love from tick-related diseases, it is important to understand the problems associated with ticks…
How to survive tick attacks
Learn to conquer the creepy critters that rule summer and squash the tick uprising for good.
Swarming bees: What it means
Spring is a time for insects to come out of hiding and that includes bees.
What You Can Do: Ticks
It is not usually feasible to control ticks themselves, especially since they are most common in our parks and open spaces. ...
Tick Infection Disease Prevention Tips
Scientists document how ticks hang on
Ticks transmit zoonotic diseases while they take a blood meal over the course of days, and a new study sheds light on how they settle in for their extended meals. The research takes a close look at the anatomy of the female tick's mouth parts and shows how the insects are able to embed in the skin and hang on without expending energy while they eat, making them difficult to extract.
How to Identify These 10 Tick Species
With tick season right around the corner in most areas, we hope this tick-identification gallery will help you limit your risk and teach you a little more about these complex and creepy creatures.
Ticks: How to Avoid and Remove Ticks
Most ticks do not carry diseases, and most tick bites do not cause serious health problems. But it is important to avoid and check for ticks, and to remove a tick as soon as you find it. Removing the tick completely may help you avoid diseases such as Lyme disease that the tick may pass on during feeding, or a skin infection where the tick bit you<br>How to avoid tick bites<br>Learn where ticks and deer that carry ticks are most commonly…
