Summer is a great time to get outside and enjoy all the scenic beauty The Natural State has to offer. But our insect problems are the stuff of legend, and most of us are used to spending our summers swatting away insects. In fact, if you don’t take the right precautions when you plan a picnic lunch you run the risk of being the main course!
If you do manage to get out and do any traveling for business or personal reasons, it’s important to keep yourself safe. We only thought that we were out of the weeds with the Covid-19 pandemic, and time will tell if we’ll be facing more travel restrictions. Whatever the case, the last thing you want to do is bring home bed bugs from your trip.
Mosquitoes bother most Arkansans so much during the summer that we jokingly refer to them as our state bird. They crash our cookouts and family outings, and can be such a nuisance that we might think the only thing we can do is stay indoors all summer and watch television. Is there anything we can do to fight back!
Is there anything more irritating than cockroaches? There are over 4,000 species of cockroaches in the world, and the ones we have here in Arkansas are some of the biggest. They eat everything, they can live for a week without a head, and they can run up to 3 miles per hour. There are even rumors that they can survive a nuclear war. In our centuries-long war with cockroaches, they seem to have the upper hand!
When the weather begins to get warmer, nature becomes much more active. We all love to see the flowers bloom and feel the warm sunlight, but we also spend a lot of time outdoors swatting insects. And if that wasn’t bad enough, we also have to deal with the constant risk of discovering a swarm of ants in our around the house.
