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Maintain Healthy Birdhouses and Birdfeeders

Maintain Healthy Birdhouses and Birdfeeders

How to prevent parasites in in your birdhouses and birdfeeders. Birds are scavengers that look for food and building materials their breeding nests.  Because of this scavenging behavior, bird are highly susceptible to picking up parasites.  Migrating birds also spread parasites from one to another,  Once a bird is infected, it carries these contaminants to the birdhouse.  Birdhouses are major breeding grounds for all kinds of parasites and deadly viruses.  Arthropods such as ants and spiders also make their home…

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Mosquito Water and Zika Virus

Mosquito Water and Zika Virus

Zika Virus is expected to hit at least 30 out of the 50 states in 2016, and whilst the impact on human embrois is clear and scary enough nobody is saying or even discussing what the impact might be on Cattle, Poultry, Birding etc. Zika virus is spread through Mosquitoes most commonly the Aedes Mosquito.   A. aegypti and A. albopictus, whilst its name comes from  a forest in Uganda, this doesn’t mean its limited to Africa. Far from it, Zika is expected to have a…

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