Local Pest Control Brisbane
Do you enjoy spending time outside in the fall? While these warmer seasons are a great time for you and your family members to enjoy the outdoors, ticks will be there also, hiding in the foliage of your garden and prepared for a bite.
Why should you be worried about ticks? Like mosquitoes, ticks are transmitters of disease. Tick-borne disease is extremely dangerous, because they affect tens of thousands of individuals throughout the USA every year. Unlike mosquitoes, ticks don’t grab a blood meal and go on their way. Ticks have beak-like projections which plunge to the skin of the host. Depending on its type, a tick may feed the host’s blood for hours, days, or even weeks. Tick-borne diseases include lyme disease, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, southern tick-associated rash infection, tick-borne relapsing the fever, and tularemia. Out of all arthropods, ticks spread the broadest array of disease-causing organisms.
Ticks are ectoparasites that reside on the blood of mammals, including humans.
The tick-induced disease is lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, rocky mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, southern tick-associated rash illness, tick-borne relapsing fever, and tularemia.
Extreme cases can even result in respiratory arrest and other forms of life threatening shock responses. The aggravation of tick bites can be prevented through knowledge of tick biology and habitats in addition to methods of tick control.
Since Australia is a subtropical country, the ecological condition is extremely much favourable for the ticks. There are 70 known species of ticks in Australia and two of it’s a huge concern: the Australian paralysis tick and the Tasmanian paralysis tick.
Your chances of disturbing the tick increase by scratching it or attempting to eliminate it, often resulting in the injection of toxic saliva. That is what can cause allergic reactions. In some cases, these can be life-threatening and very rarely, cause paralysis and death.