Sentences with phrase «including ticks and mosquitoes»

By one count, some 14,000 kinds of arthropods, including ticks and mosquitoes, are blood feeders.

Not exact matches

Biting insects include mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, chiggers, and biting flies.

The groundbreaking and far - reaching educational recommendations for climate change and health curricula aim to expand the numbers of health professionals equipped to recognize and respond to the health challenges of a warming climate, including deadly heat waves, flooding, air pollution, and wildfires; greater spread of disease vectors like ticks and mosquitos; and growing food and drinking water insecurity.

Active ingredients including pyrethrins and pyrethroids control ticks, fleas, lice, mites, and mosquitos.

In 2017 Bayer teamed up with Adopt-a-Pet.com — the nation's largest nonprofit pet adoption website — to create the Treated with Love grant program, giving shelters and rescues across the United States $ 20,000 in product, including Advantage ® II flea prevention for cats and K9 Advantix ® II flea, tick and mosquito prevention for dogs.

Moreover, most products only address fleas or fleas and ticks, but not include lice and mosquitoes let alone biting flies.

Effective against a wide - range of pests including adult fleas and flea larvae, ticks, lice, biting flies, and mosquitoes

Instead, there are several methods of protecting your pets against pesky mosquito and tick bites, including many prescription heartworm medications and collars that help repel some insects.

Flea control measures include: bathing, dipping, collars, Sentinel («flea birth control» - an oral tablet that acts by sterilizing fleas), Capstar (oral tablet offers rapid elimination of adult fleas, usually within 30 minutes), Comfortis (month - long chewable tablet that kills fleas and prevents reinfestations), Advantage topical (kills fleas up to thirty days with monthly application), Frontline topical (kills fleas and ticks), Revolution topical (heartworm preventative and kills fleas and ticks as well), Vectra topical (works by killing adult fleas, preventing development of immature flea stages, and repelling ticks and mosquitoes), Trifexis (monthly chewable tablet for dogs that kills fleas, prevents heartworm disease, and treats / controls adult hookworm, roundworm and whipworm infections), and - very important - treating the environment with carpet powders, foggers, or sprays.

Vet's Best, the experts in protecting pets from flea and ticks naturally, is expanding its line of pest protection products to include Vet's Best Mosquito Repellent.

Many of the services provided by environmental health personnel are directly related to animals (including animal bites, and stray animal and wildlife control) and pests (such as ticks and mosquitoes), as well as the diseases they harbor and spread (for example rabies, Lyme disease, viral encephalitis, West Nile Virus, and intestinal parasites such as Giardia and roundworms).

With the arrival of warm weather comes an influx of parasites including ticks, fleas and mosquitoes, all of which can be bothersome to animals.

Some of my favorites include beautiful collars filled with packets of lavender, cedar or neem wood to repel fleas, ticks and mosquitoes.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

Climate change threatens human health and well - being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, threats to mental health, and illnesses transmitted by food, water, and disease - carriers such as mosquitoes and ticks.

Climate change threatens human health and well - being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, and illnesses transmitted by food, water, and diseases carriers such as mosquitoes and ticks.

The new extremes of wind and rain are part of a larger pattern that also includes rapidly melting glaciers worldwide, increasing desertification, a global extinction crisis, the ravaging of ocean fisheries, and a growing range for disease «vectors» like mosquitoes, ticks and many other carriers of viruses and bacteria harmful to people.»

Arbovirus - Any of various viruses transmitted by blood - sucking arthropods (e.g., mosquitoes, ticks, etc.) and including the causative agents of dengue fever, yellow fever, and some types of encephalitis.