Posted by Owen Jones
There are many historical solutions for things, including insect pests, that society in general has forgotten about. The funny thing is that lots of of the chemicals used in these circumstances are derivatives of the original Indian or historical remedies. For example, permethrin, onr of the best insect killers, is manufactured from chrysanthemums
Bed bugs have been present in the Americas since the Eighteenth Century at least, but before that they had ticks, fleas and other insect pests and. natural remedies were discovered to manage the numbers of these bugs and they were discovered to work on bed bugs too.
Most people forgot about these old solutions with the general use of DDT during and after the Second World War. DDT was so good at killing insects that there appeared to be no requirement to use the old remedies, because the old remedies frequently need constant use to get effective, whereas chemical insecticides are a lot more powerful.
Although bed bugs were virtually eliminated from the West, the same was not the case in Africa and most of Asia, where DDT was not used a lot. It is supposed that the resurgence of bedbugs in 1995 came from Africa and Asia, due to increased long-haul travel and emigration.
Evidence for this theory is partially based on the fact that hotels are hit more than average with bed bug infestations when compared to the average Western home. Most people in the West will still pick up bugs from hotels and public transport such as trains, planes, taxis and buses.
Any pesticide that you use to kill bedbugs has the same difficulty to contend with. Bedbugs have a 'thick' waxy coat which stops the pesticide from contacting the insects' skin, soaking into it and killing it by one means or another.
If you can wash or scrape this wax off, your problem is a lot easier. Diatomaceous Earth or rough sand will do this, if the bugs are forced to crawl through it to squeeze into their dwellings.
These coarse substances will scrape the wax off over time - a couple of days to a week - so that natural insect control agents like chrysanthemum, neem, thyme and some other oils can get at them to do their job.
I do not know what the native people used in your country because I do not know where you live, but you are able to find out easily. Pine oil, cedar oil and teak oil are other natural substances derived from trees that ward off or kill insects.. The trees use these oils to deter insect colonies boring into themselves.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article writes on many topics, but is at present involved with Insect Exterminator problems. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.
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Posted by Owen Jones
There are occasions when it just seems that there are much more insects than previously. Maybe it is the milder winters and wetter summers helping them to breed more easily, or possibly it is because fewer people are using pesticides on their gardens.
It is fairly understandable that a lot of people do not want to use chemicals on their gardens, but not using anything at all results in a growth in the insect numbers.
During the last fifty or more years, people had gotten more and more accustomed to using chemical insecticides to poison household and garden insect pests because they are a quicker and definite killer.
So what can you do if you want to control the quantity of backyard insect pests, but do not like to use chemicals?
Well, you would have to go back to using natural insect pest killers, although most families have forgotten what their great-grandparents used to use to eradicate bugs. The following is a list of a few of the natural ways of killing insect pests. However, not all techniques or plants will be available in all countries.
Stinging nettles: if you cut down a bunch of stinging nettles and immerse them in water for a week or more, chemicals will come out of the plants into the water. Strain the water off and spray it onto your plants. It will kill or put off most garden insects. You can also use it as a plant food, but you will have to be careful how concentrated it is.
Rotenone: is a natural insecticidal. It is made from the roots of the derris plant. It kills by attacking the stomachs of insects. However, it is rather slow-acting and needs to be reapplied frequently in order to get the utmost effect. Do not use it near fish though.
Washing Up Water: soapy water of any sort will kill green fly along with other garden insect pests. This is a very easy control to administer. Simply strain your soapy water into a spray gun (like an empty window cleaner spray gun) and squirt your aphids.
Corn meal: you can sprinkle this about plants or skirting boards to kill insects. If a tomato hornworm or a cockroach eats some, the corn meal| will swell up in the insect's stomach with the bodily fluids in there and the insect will eventually explode.
Pyrethrum: made from geraniums: will paralyze an insect, but it will also wear off, so it is often mixed with a poison to kill the insect off. Otherwise, you can pick them up.
A mixture of cow's milk, flour and water can be utilized as a natural pesticide, funnily enough. It is very efficient at killing the eggs of insects. It also destroys insects themselves by clogging their breathing holes. In other words, they asphyxiate.
Neem is a very widespread tree in India and has medicinal as well as insecticidal applications. This natural insecticide repels insects by means of an active constituent that mimics an insect hormone. It makes it hard, if not impossible, to digest food and it blocks their cycle of reproduction. It works most effectively of all on insects that primarily consume leaves.
Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on several subjects, but is at present involved with Insect Exterminator problems. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.
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Posted by Owen Jones
Anyone with a nice backyard, patio or deck will surely take pleasure in sitting outside on a warm summer's day or evening. But if there is one thing that can ruin it for you, it is mosquitoes.
Occasionally, it only takes one of two determined mosquitoes to make your blood boil. Mosquitoes are a pest for sure, but they can also become a health hazard, spreading dengue fever and malaria and several other truly horrible diseases. So how do you go about keeping mosquitoes out of your backyard?
Maybe you cannot realistically hope to keep mosquitoes out of your backyard completely, but there are some measures you can take to deter them and keep their numbers down. Stopping them breeding in your backyard is the first step to take. Mosquitoes do not have a long flying range, many of the mosquitoes that bother you in your garden will have been born in your backyard.
Mosquitoes lay their eggs in stagnant water, so make certain that there is none in your garden. They will lay eggs in water butts, dogs' bowls, water that has collected in old tyres, bottles and tins and your waste cans, so make certain that no water can gather anywhere. Blocked gutters are another breeding site. If you have a water feature, put fish in it to feed on the larvae.
Mosquitoes detest the smell of lemon, so you could grow citronella plants, lemon thyme, lemon grass and even a lemon tree, if the climate is correct. Otherwise you could burn citronella scented candles or oil nearby They not only keep the mosquitoes away, but the smell is very fresh and envigourating.
If they are still bothering you, you may have to resort to mosquito repellent. You could imbue your clothing with permethrin, like the army does for jungle warfare or merely rub a deet-based product on your skin. There are also plenty of natural mosquito repellents as well, such as lemon oil, citronella and eucalyptus oil.
Garlic is said to ward off mosquitoes, so you could try growing garlic close by. It is also believed to deter ticks and has proven to discourage greenfly (aphids) from roses. What could be better, particularly if you are partial to garlic as well?
You could hang up one or two of those lamps that lure insects to them and them vapoourize them with a high voltage shock. These electric insect killers are especially good for killing mosquitoes and house flies, which can also be a nuisance when you are sitting outside.
They are inexpensive and will last for years. They give off a pleasing glow and some claim to be able to clear spaces of a quarter, a half and even a full acre of land of all flying pests by the use of the ultraviolet light and pheromones.
By using some or all of the above ways of keeping mosquitoes out of your garden, you should be able to enjoy your drink, a chat or a doze in complete peace and freedom from flies and mosquitoes.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article writes on several topics, but is at present concerned with Insect Exterminator problems. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.
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Posted by Owen Jones
So, you have got some time off work, university or school and you want to sit outdoors and relax. Possibly even go on holiday somewhere.
What a great idea! Nevertheless what occurs when you arrive at where you are going? The mosquitoes come out to bother you.
If it were not so everyday, it would sound like Freddy Kruger and Nightmare on Elm Street. The female mosquitoes want blood to create eggs and they seek it out as avidly as any vampire in a horror film, whereas the males go sucking nectar from plants like bees.
Well, that is the nightmare setting, but it is not that much different from the truth either. For many nations in the world it is also a genuine life and death problem. Millions of people die each year from malaria and loads more from dengue as well.
However both of these illnesses are curable as are the majority of of the other mosquito-borne illnesses like Yellow Fever, Japanese Jungle Encephalopathy and West Nile fever.
The first thing to understand is that usually these illnesses can be inoculated against, particularly if you are going on vacation. The next thing to keep in mind - it may help - is that not all mosquitoes are the same.
For example, in Thailand, the dengue-bearing mosquito (often known as the 'Egyptian' mosquito) comes out at dawn and dusk and so bites then too. Between around an hour before and after dawn and an hour before and after dusk, whereas the malaria-carrying mosquito, the Anopheles, is a night time huntress.
I am not suggesting that you can slacken your guard during the day, although many people assume that they can. Nobody needs dengue fever either.
So, what should you do? Before you go anywhere, read up on the district or check with medical experts. That bit is not difficult, particularly, if you know how to search the Net.
Then prepare yourself with inoculations if the danger is serious enough in your opinion or a medical expert's opinion. In my estimation, that is the minimum that a conscientious person ought to be expected to do to protect him or herself, the family and the community in general.
Then there are a few other things you could do. For example, wear baggy clothes, but long sleeves and long trousers. If you are thin on top by choice or not, wear a hat or cap.
Dress in socks or stockings in the evening to safeguard your toes. Get a good-quality mosquito repellent and put it on your exposed skin, as often as recommended by the manufacturer, which is typically every four or five hours.
You could rationally stop at that point, but I like to go a bit further, if the circumstance calls for it. If I am outdoors in the garden at home or in a hotel, I like to have one of those tennis racquet style electric bug zappers with me. They are fantastic for zapping the odd mosquito that irritates you.
They are good for clearing the bedroom before retiring too and lastly, if I am renting, walking, camping or caravaning, I may find space for a rechargeable lantern-style bug zapper too.
If the little so-and-sos are going to give me a fever, they are going to have to work very hard to do it.
Owen Jones, the author of this piece writes on many topics, but is currently involved with Insect Exterminator problems. If you would like to know more, visit our website at Bugs Infestation.
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Posted by Owen Jones
Mosquitoes, those small insects that make us uncomfortable, could also lay us open to malaria, dengue and chikungunya. They live in damp areas and breed in water.
The life cycle of this insect begins in holes in trees filled with water, tide water pools in salt marshes, sewage effluent ponds, irrigated pastures and rain water ponds.
The four main species of mosquitoes, namely Aedes, Anopheles, Culex, and Culiseta, each have their own unique environmental requirements and this assists us to identify a specific species too.
It is a good idea to note that all mosquitoes have four distinctive stages, namely the egg, larva, pupa and adult stages, in their life cycle. The eggs are laid in water or on damp surfaces and float on them. In addition, species like Culex and Culiseta lay eggs of 100 or more that are found stuck to each other in the form of a raft.
However, Anopheles mosquitoes lay their eggs on water and Aedes are known to lay their eggs usually on damp ground. The eggs take two days to hatch and metamorphose into the larval stage.
The mosquito larvae, known popularly as wrigglers or wigglers, live in water for a period of a week or two depending on the temperature of the water. The larvae come regularly to the surface of the water to take in oxygen with the aid of siphon tunes.
However, species like the Anopheles have no such mechanism and generally breathe by lying flat on the water. It is interesting to note that mosquito larvae shed their skin four times and after the fourth stage they turn into pupae.
Mosquito pupae, popularly known as "tumblers", live in water for from one to four days depending mostly on the species and temperature. In this stage, known as the resting or non-eating stage in the life cycle, the insect can be observed lying on the surface of water.
In this phase it breathes through its two breathing tubes called trumpets. This is the important and last stage before the mosquito changes into an adult and begins spreading infection. Once the stage is over, the pupa opens and the adult emerges.
Once the adult mosquito is formed, it sits on the surface of the water waiting for its body to dry out and harden. After a time, the mosquito is able to spread its wings and fly. It is interesting to remember that adult female mosquitoes are more aggressive than the males that feed only on the nectar of flowers.
Aedes female mosquitoes are known for their sore and persistent bites especially during the daytime and they attack mostly humans. The Culex specie resembles Aedes, However they are known to strike after dusk and have a preference for domestic and wild birds. They transmit encephalitis or sleeping sickness.
Culiseta mosquitoes are somewhat aggressive biters that attack during evening hours and in shade. Anopheles mosquitoes are known for spreading malaria in humans.
Ultimately, it is a good idea to know that most female mosquitoes have to feed on an animal before they can produce eggs, with some dying before laying viable eggs.
Furthermore,some species live near their breeding place while others fly as far as 100 miles from their breeding spot. Male mosquitoes have a shorter life span than female mosquitoes.
Owen Jones publishes articles on various topics, but is now involved with Hand Held Insect Killer devices and static units at Electronic Insect Killers.
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Posted by Owen Jones
I don't know if you have ever used a handheld, indoor bug zapper, but I think that they are amazing. I'm talking about the handheld type that looks like a child?s plastic, toy tennis racquet. They come in two basic sorts. I rather the rechargeable bug zapper, for the reason that batteries end up costing more than the indoor bug zapper itself, although you could always buy rechargeable batteries, but then they are steep too.
My wife and I like to spend time in the garden. We meet friends there, dine there and in general loaf about outside, as do most folks about here, when they are not working. What's more, it?s much cooler outside than inside. A comfortable chair, a few snacks, a cool drink and a book or a companion and life does not get much better. In fact, it's idyllic.
That is until about six or seven o'clock when the first squadron of mosquitoes have judged that the sun's rays have lost enough strength that they will not evaporate and they come out looking for blood. Some evenings are worse than others, of course. Normally, the mosquitoes are pretty bearable, especially seeing as I have discovered the indoor bug zapper. (I don't know why it is called an 'indoor bug zapper', it is equally as effective outdoors as in).
It's not that I want to kill things, but I find it difficult to have sympathy for mosquitoes. Nevertheless, I do get a certain amount of enjoyment from seeing and hearing mosquitoes and other bugs literally blow up with a flash and a spark as they come into contact with the electric and ground wires of the indoor bug zapper. These electric bug zappers are capable of packing quite a charge, especially if the batteries are new or the pack is wholly charged.
The other day, I found a new use for my handheld, indoor bug zapper. I'll tell you how it came about. I was in the garden, as normal, and my bug zapper was close at hand as the first squadron of mosquitoes was expected. I had my book in one hand and the bug zapper on my knees, when my wife asked me to go to the store for her. No problem, therefore, I set off on the five minute walk.
I was half-way there when I noticed that I had the indoor bug zapper in my hand, but it was not worth taking it home and beginning the journey again. Anyhow, on my return journey, I had my small bag of groceries in one hand and the indoor bug zapper in the other, when a local tyrant of a dog came running out of a garden directly for me. This has happened often and, although he has never bitten me yet, it is rather menacing. He stood there glaring at me with teeth bared and his 'pack' of assorted local pals came out to encircle me and join in.
I don't actually know what the best course of action is in this situation. I have tried holding my ground, but the intimidation just continues and I have tried to continue walking, but he gets worryingly close sometimes. This time, I suddenly lashed out with the indoor bug zapper and just hit him on the snout. Well, I'm not sure whether it hurt him, it did not appear to too much, but it gave him a very nasty shock in more ways than one, I can tell you! He leaped about four feet into the air as if he were on a pogo stick and then fled for all he was worth with all his friends behind him. It was very gratifying after six months of persecution from this dog.
Anyway, I don't take my indoor bug zapper everywhere with me, but I will in future, if any more local dogs bother me. I know it works a treat. I have seen that one since, but he keeps far away from me and doesn't utter a sound. I think I would take my indoor bug zapper with me, if I were wandering in an unknown part of town or the park nevertheless.
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