Dress as the world's scariest animal this Halloween
You may be wanting to dress up as one of the world’s scariest animals this Halloween. Perhaps you’re looking for a set of sharp teeth and some fur to wrap around you like a lion, or a large fin so that you can mimic being a shark? Maybe you want to find some long tubes to replicate legs and go as a spider? Or looking for some snakeskin and something you can fashion into a forked tongue to be a snake? However, if you truly want to go as one of the world’s deadliest animals, the reality is that the...
What does global warming mean for mosquito-borne diseases?
It’s one of the biggest topics in the news at the moment: climate change. The term, used to describe the changes in weather patterns that Earth has undergone over the course of history, is now part of our everyday lives as experts work to reduce the impact of global warming. Each of the last three decades have been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any decade since 1850, and there have also been changes in things such as rainfall and humidity - all of which can affect the life-cycle of mosquitoes and, as a result, mosquito-borne diseases....
Mosquitoes are hitch-hiking across sub-tropical regions, according to scientists at the Smithsonian
When it comes to travelling, it’s key that you remember to take with you all of your travel documents, your currency, your essential items and of course your suitcase. However, it may also be the case that you are bringing an unwelcome invader with you - in the form of a mosquito. Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have found that mosquitoes are spreading to new places in the world, via a type of ‘hitch-hiking’. The scientists have discovered that several species of mosquitoes are actually successful at sneaking into luggage, cars, trains and even planes - and ultimately...
Do I need pest control for mosquitoes in the UK?
The short answer to this is, yes. You absolutely do need protection for mosquitos even here in the UK! It’s a surprisingly common myth that mosquitoes cannot survive and do not bite in the UK. This is completely untrue. Believe it or not, there are more than 3,500 species of mosquito now known to us, with new varieties regularly being discovered. Of these 3,500 types of mosquito, 34 of these are actually completely native to the UK. That being said, though several of these native species are capable of transmitting pathogens, cases of serious bloodbourne diseases such as malaria, dengue...
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