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What is a tick bite?

Posted on April 14, 2020
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Ticks are blood-sucking parasites. When they take a blood meal, they can cause dermatological disease directly by their bite, or indirectly as vectors of other diseases. Tick-borne diseases include: Bacterial infections including Lyme disease, relapsing fever, tularaemia, and... more
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Everyone is home…Now is the time to Sanitize & Disinfect!

Posted on April 13, 2020
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Sanitizing doorknobs, chairs, desks, tables, hand railings, break rooms, cafeterias, high traffic areas and much more. Call A1 Now for Facility Sanitizing & Disinfecting Services Get VIRUS... more
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From chaos to order: How ants optimize food search

Posted on April 13, 2020
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Ants are capable of complex problem-solving strategies that could be widely applied as optimization techniques. An individual ant searching for food walks in random ways, biologists found. Yet the collective foraging behavior of ants goes well beyond that, as a mathematical study to be... more
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Cockroach Breeding Habits

Posted on April 12, 2020
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After mating, female cockroaches deposit their eggs in a hardened oval capsule called an ootheca. When the eggs are almost ready to hatch, the mothers of most species either drop the egg case close to a food source, or use secretions from their mouths to glue it to a suitable surface. The eggs... more
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40 Species of Termites in US

Posted on April 10, 2020
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In the United States, we can find around 40 species of termites.  Worldwide, there are at least 2,000 species of termites. Looking at them, they do not seem to amount to much. How can an insect so tiny destroy an entire building, Measuring just about ¼ to ½ inches in length. They have... more
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How many hands touched this? Sanitize & Disinfect!

Posted on April 9, 2020
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When Bedbugs Bite

Posted on April 9, 2020
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Bedbugs are active mainly at night and usually bite people while they are sleeping. They feed by piercing the skin and withdrawing blood through an elongated beak. The bugs feed from three to 10 minutes to become engorged and then crawl away unnoticed. Most bedbug bites are painless at... more
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How many hands touched this? Sanitize & Disinfect!

Posted on April 8, 2020
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Everyone is home…Now is the time to Sanitize & Disinfect!

Posted on April 7, 2020
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How can tick bites be prevented?

Posted on April 7, 2020
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Avoid areas such as forests or fields where ticks are found. Use insect repellent containing DEET on the skin, and permethrin on the clothes. Wear long-sleeved clothing that fits tightly around the wrists, waist, and ankles. Check twice daily for attached ticks and remove... more
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