I’ll be really upfront and say ‘I hate ticks’. Ticks are like little mobile biological weapons labs! Ticks are the number one disease vector in the United States and are second only to mosquitoes worldwide. They are efficient transmitters of the bacterium that cause Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichiosis, and tularemia. Ticks can also carry and transmit several different viruses that cause encephalitis, and a malaria-like protozoan (Babesia microti), which causes babesiosis.
VIEW MOREQ. I recently sighted a strange, many legged creature scuttling around my kitchen floor. It was about 2 inches long and quickly hid when I moved. What the heck could that be and should I be worried?
VIEW MOREI’m a fan of most arachnids such as spiders, scorpions, and harvestmen. Why you ask? Because they mostly hunt for a living, use venom, have fangs, etc. You know, creepy, cool stuff like that!! I could go on and on, but there is one group of arachnids I have absolutely no use for and that would be the ticks.
VIEW MOREQ. When I emptied a bag of dry dog food yesterday I noticed tiny moving things in the bottom of the bag. You could barely see them. It looked like the leftover dog food dust was moving. Are these some kind of mite? Will it hurt my dog if he ate them?
VIEW MOREQ. We have these very strange insects in our basement. They’re light brown, about an inch long with very long legs. They look kind of like a spider but they jump—a lot, and high. I find them just downstairs and mostly around the outside door to the basement and in the hot water heater closet. When I open the door to that closet, they start jumping at me and scare me to death! Is this some kind of a jumping spider and why do I have so many?
VIEW MOREQ. Hello. I’ve been meaning to write to you about a problem we had this past summer with bugs in our swimming pool. I think they’re what you call midges, little flies that look kind of like mosquitoes. We get big swarms of them that drown in the pool and make a real mess. Is there anything we can do? We can’t cover the pool every day to keep them out.
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Worcester, MA 01604
47 Thames Rd Ste 6&7
Hooksett, NH 03106