{"id":734,"date":"2018-02-02T11:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:45:29","slug":"3-top-five-pest-concerns-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"#3 Top Five Pest Concerns for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#3 MOSQUITOES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Best known as a summer pest, female mosquitoes can lay up to 300 eggs at a time. Mosquitoes can develop from egg to adult in 10 to 14 days. Once reaching adulthood, the mosquito may live 5-6 months.<\/p>\n<p>A mosquito uses heat sensors on its antennae and around its mouth parts to locate capillaries near the skin\u2019s surface. The mosquito then uses its proboscis, a long pointed mouth part, to pierce the skin and to tap the capillary then drink up to three times its weight in blood.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mosquitoes are attracted to your body warmth and odor.<\/li>\n<li>Carbon dioxide is considered to be the greatest attractant to mosquitoes.<\/li>\n<li>When the female mosquito sense carbon dioxide (your breath), she will fly back and forth in a zigzag pattern, until she finds the source.<\/li>\n<li>Female mosquitoes need protein to lay their eggs and get it by feeding on warm-blooded creatures. If a mosquito bites an infected animal or a person, then bites you, it can pass the disease to your blood through its saliva.<\/li>\n<li>Mosquitoes breed in soft, moist soil or stagnant water sources such as storm drains, old tires, clogged gutters and birdbaths.<\/li>\n<li>Mosquitoes are busiest at night and will fly up to 14 miles for a blood meal.<\/li>\n<li>Mosquitoes spread diseases such as West Nile Virus, malaria and dengue fever.<\/li>\n<li>People with Type O blood attracted more mosquitoes than any other blood type.<\/li>\n<li>Almost all mosquito-bite illnesses have similar symptoms: Fever, Body aches, Rash &amp; Headache.<\/li>\n<li>Ideally, you want to avoid being bitten by wearing long sleeves and long pants or other protective measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#3 MOSQUITOES Best known as a summer pest, female mosquitoes can lay up to 300 eggs at a time. Mosquitoes can develop from egg to adult in 10 to 14 days. Once reaching adulthood, the mosquito may live 5-6 months. A mosquito uses heat sensors on its antennae and around its mouth parts to locate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-mosquito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12710,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}