Don’t Let the Bedbugs, Mosquitoes, Ticks, or Ants Bite
It’s almost officially summer, which for a lot of people means the beginning of battles with entomological enemies. I’m very allergic to mosquito bites, which was fine here in Los Angeles until last year when the area got invaded by the ankle-biting, striped Aedes aegypti, potential transmitters of all kinds of diseases. I recently had to fend off some ants that had discovered a drip from the cap of a bottle of honey in my cabinet. And Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness, seems to be striking people I know with more frequency; the CDC says that between 2004 and 2016, the number of reported tick-borne illnesses has doubled.
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Read the full article by Ganda Suthivarakom on Wirecutter's website here.
October 24, 2024
Wirecutter
Ujumbe wa Wirecutter ni kupendekeza kile ambacho ni muhimu sana. Kila mwaka, sisi kujitegemea mtihani na mapitio maelfu ya bidhaa kukusaidia kupata tu nini unahitaji. Lengo letu ni kuokoa muda na kuondoa mafadhaiko ya ununuzi, iwe unatafuta gia ya kila siku au zawadi kwa wapendwa.
Tunajitahidi kuwa huduma ya mapendekezo ya bidhaa inayoaminika zaidi, na tunafanya kazi na uhuru wa wahariri wa jumla. Hatutachapisha mapendekezo isipokuwa waandishi wetu na wahariri wameona kitu bora kupitia ripoti kali na upimaji.
Chunguza Maudhui Zaidi
Majina ya Vyombo vya Habari
Sawyer’s donation of water filters represents a significant shift away from the cumbersome logistics of bottled water, offering a faster and more efficient solution.
Majina ya Vyombo vya Habari
Summer tick season used to be a problem only in the southern part of Ontario, but tick populations are moving north as the climate grows warmer.
Majina ya Vyombo vya Habari
Mosquitos are nasty creatures. They bite, they transmit terrible diseases to people and pets, and from what I read, they have absolutely no redeeming value in the ecosystem.
Kutoka kwa kikosi
Mazungumzo ya Campfire na jamii yetu, kutoka kwa Wanachama wa Squad na Mabalozi kwa Washirika wa Brand na timu ya Sawyer.
