Protecting Family From Insects

Protecting Our Home and Family from Insects
By Roger Wilson

Our home has always been invaded by ants. If it's not black ants it's red ants and when the ants are away, we seem to get the flies, bees and wasps causing a menace. Oh, and let's not forget the cockroaches, which to me are the rats of the insect world. These indestructible vermin have been seen of a late evening scurrying across the kitchen floor. This year has been particularly bad and so we decided to do check out our options at controlling these unwanted guests once and for all.

Knowing that millions of homes across the country suffer the same fate does little to help when it is you that's getting bitten, harassed or frightened on a daily basis. Although bugs such as the harmless house spider are safe and relatively clean, this is not the case with all our summer gate crashers. Ants can and do bite, and when it's hot, these nasty little stings seem to linger on forever. Flying insects such as common flies are nothing short of filthy and can contaminate any uncovered foods if you're careless.

But it's the other flying fighters that scare the wits out of me. We have bees, as in killer bees! Wasps can pack one heck of a painful jab too, and as for mosquitoes, well, depending on where in the world you come from, these lightweights can really carry some malicious parasites around with, them which can prove lethal if they find their way into your blood stream.