Watch Out for Wood Ticks: Identification and Information
November 26th, 2009 Posted in Spiders & Other Arachnids, Wood Damaging Pests | No Comments | The First 1,000 to Comment (Starting 10/21/2009) Will Become EcoSMART Product Testers! (details)
Most of you who have ever lived or spent time outdoors, especially in wooded or grassy areas, have almost surely come into contact with ticks at some point.
Although commonly mislabeled as insects, ticks are actually arachnids like scorpions and ...
Preventing Ticks: Made Easy
November 25th, 2009 Posted in Spiders & Other Arachnids | 3 Comments | The First 1,000 to Comment (Starting 10/21/2009) Will Become EcoSMART Product Testers! (details)
Ticks can transmit a variety of contagious diseases, such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted fever to name a few of the most common and serious. People who live, work, or spend leisure time near tick-infested locations ...
Making A Spider Web Benefits More Than Just Spiders
November 16th, 2009 Posted in Spiders & Other Arachnids | 3 Comments | The First 1,000 to Comment (Starting 10/21/2009) Will Become EcoSMART Product Testers! (details)
A spider web serves as a spider's home and a means of catching its prey. Spiders tend to be more harmful to humans than helpful. Their poisonous venom can cause allergic reactions in some people, while causing fear in many ...
What’s Cooler: The Oldest Spider Web Or The Biggest Spider Web?
November 11th, 2009 Posted in Spiders & Other Arachnids | 2 Comments | The First 1,000 to Comment (Starting 10/21/2009) Will Become EcoSMART Product Testers! (details)
A web is the silk dwelling of a spider, that also serves as a sticky trap for capturing unsuspecting insects. They produce silk in their bodies almost as naturally as our bodies produce blood. Spiders spin their webs since birth, ...
What Do Ticks Look Like?
November 11th, 2009 Posted in Spiders & Other Arachnids | No Comments | The First 1,000 to Comment (Starting 10/21/2009) Will Become EcoSMART Product Testers! (details)
Ticks are little parasitic arachnids that feed like vampires off of their victim's blood. Without being noticed, they burrow into your skin sucking your blood and then they eventually fall off your body, once they've literally sucked blood ...
Avoiding Disease: Tick Bite Treatment
November 9th, 2009 Posted in Spiders & Other Arachnids | 7 Comments | The First 1,000 to Comment (Starting 10/21/2009) Will Become EcoSMART Product Testers! (details)
Vampires may be in right now, but ticks never are. Sure, they vant to suck your blood just like Edward Cullen, but they are no where near as cute and can carry dangerous diseases.
So what happens if you ...
The Lone Star Tick Covers More Than Texas
November 3rd, 2009 Posted in Spiders & Other Arachnids | 1 Comment | The First 1,000 to Comment (Starting 10/21/2009) Will Become EcoSMART Product Testers! (details)
Did you know the Lone Star State has a provision allowing it to leave the union?
Did you know the lone star tick has a provision that allows it to suck the blood of its host?
Ok, so the two have very ...
No Trespassing, Beware of Dog Ticks
October 27th, 2009 Posted in Spiders & Other Arachnids | 2 Comments | The First 1,000 to Comment (Starting 10/21/2009) Will Become EcoSMART Product Testers! (details)
If you've ever had a tick on you before, you know how gross it is. But having a tick on your pet is even worse.
Most ticks prefer your pets to you. The American dog tick, or wood tick, ...
Deer Ticks Making You Sick?
October 27th, 2009 Posted in Spiders & Other Arachnids | 5 Comments | The First 1,000 to Comment (Starting 10/21/2009) Will Become EcoSMART Product Testers! (details)
If you've never had Lyme disease, it starts as a feeling of the flu, gradually deteriorating into joint pain and inflammation, memory loss, and mood changes. It can take a high dosage of antibiotics is usually needed to ...
Seed Ticks Aren’t That Different
October 24th, 2009 Posted in Spiders & Other Arachnids | 2 Comments | The First 1,000 to Comment (Starting 10/21/2009) Will Become EcoSMART Product Testers! (details)
The seed tick is known as such because they're much smaller than your average tick. The fact they're smaller than a seed, is what makes them differ from their tick brethren.
They do however operate in all the ...
