Facts
  • Only female mosquitoes bite; males feed on plant nectar. The female mosquito requires a blood meal for development of her eggs.
     
  • House flies taste with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive to sugar than the human tongue.
     
  • Rats damage structures, chew wiring and cause electrical fires, eat and urinate on human and animal food, and carry many diseases.
     
  • Some female cockroaches mate once and are pregnant for the rest of their lives.
     
  • The female flea consumes 15 times her own body weight in blood daily.
     
  • Worldwide, mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other living creature. Mosquitoes can be carriers of malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever in humans. Malaria has killed more humans than any other known disease.
     
  • More than 100 pathogens are associated with the house fly including Salmonella, Staphylococcus, E. coli and Shigella. These pathogens can cause disease in humans and animals, including typhoid fever, cholera, bacillary dysentery, hepatitis.
     
  • All species of commensal rodents carry and spread various diseases. They include salmonellosis, plague, leptospirosis, hantaviriruses, and rickettsial pox.
     
  • Roaches can live without food for a month, but will only survive a week without water.
     
  • Undisturbed and without a blood meal, a flea can live more than 100 days. On average, they live two to three months.
     
  • Mosquitoes are attracted by carbon dioxide in our breath. They can detect this from great distances. They can easily detect an increase of 0.01% of the concentration of carbon dioxide with the help of special organs situated on their heads.
     
  • A female house fly begins laying eggs a few days after hatching, laying a total of five to six batches of 75 to 100 eggs. In warm weather, eggs hatch in 12 to 24 hours.
     
  • Mice can reproduce all year round. They can become impregnated while nursing and have a new litter every forty-fifty days or so. Usually six young per litter.
     
  • Cockroaches have one great big nerve connecting their tails to their heads, alerting them to danger from behind.
     
  • Mosquitoes breed in standing water. One female mosquito may lay 100 to 300 eggs at a time and may average 1,000 to 3,000 offsprings during her life span.
     
  • Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
     
  • Some people develop allergies to cockroaches, including skin rashes and respiratory problems, such as a condition similar to asthma.
     
  • Female fleas cannot lay eggs until after their first blood meal and begin to lay eggs within 36 to 48 hours after that meal. The female flea can lay 2,000 eggs in her lifetime.
     
  • It would take 1.120.000 mosquito bites to drain all the blood out of an average adult human.
     
  • Rats can harbour and transmit a number of serious diseases. They can also introduce disease-carrying parasites such as fleas, lice and ticks into your home.
     

 

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