{"id":331,"date":"2018-09-04T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2018-09-12T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:09:25","slug":"heavy-rain-plus-hot-weather-equals-mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/heavy-rain-plus-hot-weather-equals-mosquitoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain Plus Hot Weather Equals Mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the large amount of rainfall this year combined with the high temperatures is perfect weather for mosquitos. Standing water is ideal for breeding spots. A female mosquito can lay 100-200 eggs in a bottle cap of water. Mosquitos are also dangerous for transmitting viruses. The warmer the weather gets, the more efficiently mosquitoes transmit the virus like the <a href=\"https:\/\/gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/14\/zika-virus-mosquito-borne-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zika Virus &#8211; mosquito borne disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Females can lay eggs in the fall, the larva will lie dormant until weather warms up.<\/li>\n<li>Only female mosquitos bite.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of mosquitos are active during dusk time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drain standing water.<\/li>\n<li>Keep grass cut.<\/li>\n<li>Have your Spartanburg exterminator treat you property.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/25\/protecting-yourself-from-mosquito-bites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Protecting yourself from mosquito bites<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/protecting-your-pets-from-mosquitoes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Protecting your pest from mosquitoes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For more information on Spartanburg pest control services and treatment plans we provide, contact your Spartanburg exterminator\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gottabugcalldoug.net\/contact.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gotta Bug Call Doug\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>at (864) 582-3684.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the large amount of rainfall this year combined with the high temperatures is perfect weather for mosquitos. Standing water is ideal for breeding spots. A female mosquito can lay 100-200 eggs in a bottle cap of water. Mosquitos are also dangerous for transmitting viruses. The warmer the weather gets, the more efficiently mosquitoes transmit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/heavy-rain-plus-hot-weather-equals-mosquitoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heavy Rain Plus Hot Weather Equals Mosquitoes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[30,40,10,28,6,42,13],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-douglas-pest-control","category-fun-interesting-facts","tag-douglas-pest-control","tag-exterminator-spartanburg","tag-gotta-bug-call-doug","tag-mosquitoes","tag-pest-control-spartanburg","tag-spartanburg-exterminator","tag-unwanted-pests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}