Friday, October 29, 2010
Arial Black Company {ABC} - Apresentação na Jiefem 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
John Gillespie Talks Coleman Repellents SkinSmart
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Ray Scott endorses NutriShield Natural Insect Repellent
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Foreclosure Cleanup Business - How to Effectively Fight Mosquitoes at the Worksite
Take mosquito spray to your foreclosure cleanup job site for you and your workers. I was at a worksite recently and got over ten bites within a few minutes! There was standing water about the house and in the crawl space.
I'm a "Caribbean gypsy" and have experienced the worst of insects in the tropics, but I'd never experienced anything like this. This property was a feeding frenzy. (Female mosquitoes are the culprits in biting because they need blood to lay eggs to create more mosquitoes.)
Which Brand of Mosquito Spray?
The OFF! (Deep Woods) brand is a very good spray. The nozzle sprays long and wide for quick coverage. You'll be out less than $5 bucks in Wal-Mart for a six ounce can. The higher the "deet" content in any brand, the better. Deet is a highly effective insect repellent oil of a slightly yellowish hue. It also protects against numerous tick borne ailments.
Check Out the Active Ingredient Percentages
To find the ideal mosquito spray for your use and for your workers just look at the "Active Ingredient" content on the can and see what percentage of the ingredients is comprised of deet. The OFF! brand is usually 25% deet and 75% "other ingredients." (This is not an endorsement of any kind, just based on my personal experience in the foreclosure cleaning field.)
Effective Garb
You'll want to wear long sleeves, pants, hats, socks, and shoes of course, Try wearing lighter colors, too, because the little buggers love darker hues. The thicker your clothing when working in mosquito-infested areas, the better.
They Love Water!
When you're preparing to work around especially standing water at a foreclosure cleanup worksite, douse yourself in mosquito spray before you get to the property. You'll be glad you did, because these insects gravitate to moist areas for egg-laying and breeding purposes. Also, be prepared to encounter more of them in the early mornings and evening hours.
You Don't Have to Smell Good
Another quick tip: leave the cologne and perfume on the dresser. If you don't, you'll smell great, but you'll be a magnet for the pesky little fellers and will have the welts to prove it.
Read the Precautions
Of course, exercise diligence and make sure you read the mosquito spray precautions before lathering yourself too much. As with most products, there can be side effects and irritants that can outweigh the product benefits.
Good luck fighting off the mosquitoes on your next foreclosure cleaning job, and many wishes of success to you in your foreclosure cleanup business.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
How to Get Rid of Daddy Long Legs
I. General Facts about Daddy Longlegs
Daddy longlegs/harvestmen (Opiliones) spiders eat a wide variety of foods, including aphids, caterpillars, beetles, flies, mites, small slugs, snails, earthworms, spiders, other harvestmen, decaying plant and animal matter, bird droppings and fungi. When faced with predators (among the most common of which are birds), a daddy longlegs spider releases a stinking odor.
Interestingly, the average daddy longlegs molts every ten days or so. It splits open its body case, or exoskeleton, then takes about twenty minutes to drag its long legs from their old casings.
II. Are Daddy Longlegs Pests?
They're not really pests per se, mainly because their numbers don't usually post a threat to everyday human life, and they're also quite harmless.
In fact, there are even some species of daddy longlegs that are going extinct. Some troglobitic (cave dwelling) Opiliones have now even been considered endangered since their home caves are in or near cities where pollution and development of the land alter the cave habitat. Others species are threatened by the invasion of non-native fire ants.
III. Bites from Daddy Longlegs
You don't need to be afraid of daddy longlegs because they have no venom at all. There have been stories that the harvestman is the most venomous animal in the world. This is not true. Its fangs are actually too small to bite humans and are not dangerous. In fact, none of the known species have venom glands or fangs.
The size of its mouth varies by species, but even those with relatively large jaws hardly ever bite humans or other large creatures, even in self-defense. The few known cases of actual bites did not involve venom and had no lasting effect.
IV. Basic Daddy Longlegs Infestation Control
There are over a hundred daddy longlegs species in North America alone. There's a smaller-bodied, longer-legged form of daddy longlegs, and a larger-bodied, shorter-legged one. The small-bodied, long-legged one is the male, and the other, the female. Regardless of gender, though, this spider can be dealt with using of any of the following:
* Bug Repellant: A substance applied to skin, clothing, or other surfaces that discourages insects (and arthropods in general) from landing or climbing on that surface; something like Off! Lotion, Off! Deep Woods, DEET Insect Repellant and the like.
* Mothballs: Mothballs are small balls of chemical pesticide and deodorant, used when storing clothing and other articles susceptible to damage from mold or moth larvae (especially clothes moths like Tineola bisselliella). If it can work for moths, then it should work just as well for repelling daddy longlegs.
* The Classic Water and Soap Trap: A clean, dust-free environment means disturbed habitat for the harvestmen. Many homeowners use a nylon stocking over a broom head to remove both the harvestmen and their webs.