Sentences with phrase «like ticks and mosquitos»

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.

Warming temperatures make life more comfortable for the pests like ticks and mosquitoes that spread infectious diseases.

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Mosquitos, ticks, and biting flies are doubly hazardous: they bite and cause irritation, and they can also carry serious diseases, like West Nile (mosquitos), Lyme disease, and Rocky Mountain Spotted FeverMosquitos, ticks, and biting flies are doubly hazardous: they bite and cause irritation, and they can also carry serious diseases, like West Nile (mosquitos), Lyme disease, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fevermosquitos), Lyme disease, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (ticks).

Along with mosquitoes, ticks, mice, and other carriers are likewise surviving milder winters and fanning out across the country, spreading an encyclopedia of pathogens: Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, equine encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, anaplasmosis, and babesiosis, a once uncommon malaria - like infection in the United States.

«There are also lots of small critters around, to make life miserable, like mosquitos, leeches and ticks,» he says.

Certain species of insects, like mosquitoes, ticks and invasive beetles, are also expected to benefit from warmer temperatures.

That's one reason I took notice of this week's report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about vector - borne illnesses, a.k.a. diseases spread by insects like ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes.

In addition to mosquitoes, you'll also want to take precautions against fleas and ticks which, like mosquitoes, are not only a nuisance but carry a variety of nasty diseases you'll want to avoid.

There are many pet - friendly products like Neem Protect Spray which uses a natural tree oil to repel lice, mites, flies, mosquitoes, fleas, gnats, and ticks.

Nasty critters like ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes love to attack pets in the summer.

I like the fact that k9 Advantixll repels and kills fleas, ticks and mosquitoes and it is waterproof!

Keep your pet on a monthly preventative to protect them from parasitic diseases like heartworm (caused by mosquitoes), Lyme disease (caused by ticks), and flea allergy dermatitis (caused by fleas).

While we're all excited to get out and enjoy the season, the warmer weather and balmy temperatures are the perfect breeding grounds for pesky little pests like fleas, ticks, mosquitos, and ear mites.

Some studies have found that peppermint oil, especially in combination with other essential oils, is effective in repelling pests like fleas, ticks, and mosquitos.

Protecting your dog from pests like fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, and biting flies can be tough, but it's vital to your pet's health.

This formula is blended with certified natural essential oils and then independently tested to confirm the effectiveness against pests like fleas, ticks and mosquitoes.

On - spot treatments like Hartz ® UltraGuard Pro ® Flea and Tick Drops for Dogs and Puppies can kill and prevent fleas, ticks and even mosquitoes.

Keeping canines indoors isn't a guarantee against pests like fleas, ticks and heartworm - carrying mosquitoes, either — these critters are stopped by doors.

Common parasites like ticks, fleas and heartworm - carrying mosquitos feed on your pets.

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.

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.»

Pungent bugs, hairy bugs, bugs that bite or sting, and disease - carriers like flies, ticks and mosquitoes are also on the very generalized do - not - eat list, although there are exceptions.