If you enter a hospital with an ulcerated skin wound, you just might end up with a doctor prescribing the application of fly maggots to clean out that wound! Fly larvae feed on rotting and decaying material, including human and animal flesh. Maggot therapy is a type of biotherapy that involves the introduction of live, sterile fly larvae (maggots) into non-healing skin and wounds for the purpose of cleaning out the dead tissue, a process called “debridement.” The maggots can consume necrotic (dead) tissues more precisely than a surgical knife can remove them.
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When the Environmental Protection Agency conducted a survey about pesticides in the home, it found that about half of all households with children under the age of five had pesticides stored in unlocked cabinets within reach of children (less than 4 ft off of the ground).
Did you know that the landscaping around your home could be a factor in whether pests end up inside your home? Now that spring is in the air and folks are starting to plant and mulch, plan your landscaping and plant selections to reduce pests around your home at the same time that you beautify your surroundings.
VIEW MOREIt’s that time of year again when insects that have been spending the winter inside our homes become active again. On those first warm and sunny spring days, overwintering pests that have been hiding in attics and wall and ceiling voids, behind baseboards, or under carpet edges, start to stir and stretch. For most of them, it’s a calling to return to the outdoors to find a mate.
VIEW MOREWhen you bring potted plants that have been summering outside indoors in the fall, you risk bringing pests in as well. Pests like sowbugs, millipedes, and ants use plant pots as a home, living in the soil in the pot. Miscellaneous leaf chewers like grasshoppers or caterpillars may hitchhike in, unseen, on a potted plant. Fortunately, most of these pests will die once they are brought indoors to a drier environment.
VIEW MOREQ. I don’t understand how cockroaches and rats and other pests can live in sewer systems. What are they feeding on?
VIEW MOREQ. I’m doing a science fair project on how insects grow. Do they all shed their skins to grow? How many times do they change skins before they’re grown?
VIEW MOREQ. What eats wood? My carpenter brought me a piece of wood that looks like it has been eaten! He showed me what look like chambers and tunnels in the wood, and some material was falling out! There were no live bugs that he could find but he did say that it looks like there is more damage where he is going to replace a section of siding. I’m concerned that my house is being eaten by something. What could cause this type of damage?
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