For a long time, man has fought insects as pests, diseases carriers and crop destroyers. Today many of the most dangerous of these species are showing increasing Resistance to DIY fumigations (insecticides). Therefore, stronger methods of fumigation are required to be carried out by pest control professionals like Green Safety Limited is needed to tackle these stubborn pest problems.
Insects have a long history of multiplying over a period of time in a particular environment. currently we have over 700,000 species of these insects that have been described by scientists.
Transmission Of Human Diseases
Although insect bites or stings occasionally cause severe illness or are fatal to humans and animals, their disease-laden saliva or contaminated bodies are responsible for many illnesses or deaths over the world.
Mechanical Transmission Method
This occurs, for example, when the housefly merely transports organisms – such as dysentery bacteria on its feet, body hairs and other surfaces – from filth to humans. Other examples include cockroaches and vinegar gnats that visit sewers and liquid excrement and then move to human habitations.
Biological Transmission Method
This occurs when an insect, such as the bedbug, mite or tick, is essential for the completion of the life cycle of the disease or parasite. Certain Anopheles mosquitoes, for example, are essential carriers and vectors of the malaria parasite. This parasite undergoes a portion of its life cycle in the Anopheles carrier and another portion in the human host.
Disease is also transmitted through the host-vector relationship. Such transmission is often further complicated by more than just the direct carrier of the disease from one host to another. Some other hosts called “reservoirs” are not affected by the disease but are able to perpetuate the disease organism by providing safe harborage for the disease organism. Some birds, for example, are reservoirs of mosquito-borne encephalitis 1 (sometimes called “sleeping sickness”). The birds are apparently unharmed by the encephalitis virus, but when the mosquito sucks blood from the bird and then bites man or horses, the virus may produce serious or fatal results.
Insects generally cannot transmit disease unless they have already bitten a diseased host. For example, an Anopheles mosquito cannot transmit malaria unless it has first bitten a person with the malaria parasite (in addition, there is often an “incubation period,” a period between when the disease is picked up by the insect and the time when it is able to transmit the disease). Some ticks and mites, however, can transmit disease-causing organisms, such as the rickettsia causing Rocky Mountain spotted fever, directly to their offspring through the egg.
Myiasis is the infestation of man or animals by living larvae (maggots) of flies. Maggots mostly infest dead tissue. An example of the other type is the “true screwworm” which attacks the living tissue of livestock and rarely man. The maggots of some flies, including the rat-tailed maggots of flower flies, may be accidentally swallowed and cause intestinal upsets.
Poison, Irritation and Allergy Many insects and some spiders, scorpions and centipedes have developed poisoning mechanisms for self-defense or for paralyzing their prey. Stings and bites may be intensely irritating to humans but seldom cause death.
Some insects, such as the demisted beetle larvae, have stiff hairs that when touched feel like stinging nettles. Canthari din, present in the blood of blister beetles, causes painful blistering of the skin when the insect is crushed. Mosquitoes, fleas, chiggers, and other pests have done much to irritate man.
Another, more recent finding concerning insects and allergy is the relation between cockroaches and asthma. Studies have shown that with increased weather-tight buildings, indoor air quality has been lowered and, in structures where roaches are present, cockroach dust will increase the likelihood of childhood asthma.
Keeping Insects Away
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