FOX 47 Story on Deer Ticks & Lyme Disease

http://www.fox47.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/vid_1815.shtml
A feature story aired on a Wisconsin news station. 20-40% of ticks in the area are estimated to carry Lyme Disease, a number higher than previous years. Keep them off your family and pets by calling Mosquito Squad today and learning more about our proven tick control program.

National Mosquito Control Awareness Week

This week, June 26 through July 2, has been declared National Mosquito Control Awareness Week by the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA). It aims to educate the general public about the significance and potential harm of mosquitoes in their everyday lives, and it acknowledges the efforts of mosquito control workers throughout the country. Learn more by visiting the AMCA website, or The Mosquito Squad's website at www.mosquitosquad.com

Come see us in the Rochesterfest Parade this Friday!

Dread Skeeter is looking forward to seeing you in downtown Rochester for Friday's parade! Check out the Mosquito Squad truck, say hello to your favorite mascot, and marvel at the hundreds of other floats. For more information and to attend on Facebook, go to: https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=138259176251760

Dread Skeeter's Rochester Adventures

Our mascot, Dread Skeeter, just came back from a tour of Rochester. Follow his adventures in our newest (and first!) YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db6Tqra0xY0

Not-So-Fun Fact #1: Mosquito Math

Mosquitoes can breed anywhere there's standing water for a week after a rainfall -- even a hoofprint in the mud can host hundreds of eggs! And, since they hatch in 1-5 days, the eggs that a mosquito lays will all too quickly be laying more of their own! Assuming all potential eggs survive, those eggs will turn exponentially into more than 1.3 billion mosquitoes by the end of the month. Yikes!

Twin Cities Mosquito Squad on FOX

Our friend Russ from the Twin Cities Metro Mosquito Squad franchise on FOX 9 News....
http://ping.fm/Sn60G

Antibiotics recommended after deer tick bite.

http://ping.fm/gH0vD

Tick-borne disease rate rising. WCCO story.

Recent story from WCCO.com.....

http://ping.fm/mbUTT

Wet Spring = Summer mosquitoes?

http://ping.fm/OIXii

May is Lyme disease awareness month.

May is Lyme Disease awareness month.

http://ping.fm/Zc6WS

Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) #3

Question:    What type of product do you use?

Answer:     Mosquito Squad employs pyrethroids, a synthetic copy of pyrethrin.  Pyrethrins, insecticides derived from an extract of chrysanthemum flowers, typically break down around four to six hours after application.   In contrast, pyrethroids, break down around 21 days after application, offering your family much longer protection.  These are the same products commonly used in pet flea/tick collars and sprays.  Pyrethroids pose little risk to human health and to the environment.  They bind strongly to soil and are not easily absorbed by plant roots.  Because of this, pyrethroids usually do not contaminate groudwater.  Sunlight and other compounds in the atmosphere break pyrethroids down quickly, resulting in little environmental or air contamination. 

Rochester Post Bulletin article

We received a very nice write-up in the Post Bulletin - click on the link below to view it
www.postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1450383

Press Release

http://ping.fm/6N0fB

Click on the above link to read the press release announcing the opening of our franchise location....

Gorgeous outside today. Maybe Spring has finally arrived.

Question:
What animal kills the most people?

Answer:
Currently the mosquito kills more people every year than any other animal.

Here are some numbers:


•over 5,000,000 people worldwide died every year at the height of the Black Death in 1349 (probably bubonic plague bacterium carried by rat fleas in turn carried by black rats), eventually killing 30% to 60% of all humans in Europe.
•1,200,000 people worldwide died in motor vehicle traffic accidents in 2004, as estimated by the WHO. 41,900 people in the US died in motor vehicle traffic accidents in 2007, according to the CDC.
•781,000 people worldwide die each year from malaria (from single-celled Plasmodium protists carried by mosquitoes) according to the WHO.

•20,000 to 94,000 people worldwide die each year from snakebites, according to Kasturiratne et. al.
•52,495 people in the US die from influenza (a virus) and pneumonia (most often caused by pneumococcus bacteria) in 2007, according to the CDC.

•34,598 people died from suicide in the US, and 18,009 people died from homicide in the US, in 2007 according to the CDC.