MOSQUITOES HAVE DISCRIMINATING TASTES! If you are convinced that mosquitoes have a greater affinity for you than for others, you may be right. A University of Florida entomologist found that mosquitoes do, indeed, choose. Because of their ability to choose the best hosts for their blood meals, which they need to lay eggs, they find their hosts, initially, with a keen sense of smell. People can attract mosquitoes from up to 40 miles simply by breathing. A persons carbon dioxide and other odors mix to produce a plum that travels through the air. The plum acts like a dinner bell to mosquitoes, letting them know a juicy meal is within range.
SPIDERS: In Oklahoma there are three spiders that are most dangerous; black widow, brown recluse, hobo spider. (There is a new spider to Oklahoma called the brown widow which is similar to the black widow, only brown) If bitten by one of these you keep the person calm, apply ice to decrease pain and swelling, contact your doctor immediately. Other spiders like the mouse spider, wolf spider,and black house spider are also poisonous and have a painful bite; the garden spider, saint andrew’s cross spider, huntsman sider are lower risk. Anytime you get a spider bite and it painful, you shoud contact your doctor. Mack’s has a very good chemical that can rid your house of spiders.
Fact: All the animals in the entire world wild and tame, fish and birds, snakes and spiders, and on and on are called the ‘Bio Mass’. Of the Bio Mass, ants and termites make up over 50%.