Daylight Saving Time brings more fleas
During the Bush administration Republican lawmakers got together and decided that Daylight Savings Time (DST) should start much earlier, and set March 11 as the change date. Their reason: heating bills will be lower. Since when did a republican care about the woes of the common people? Naturally it was the recreational industry, power industry (early AC), big oil (more driving) and other corporate fat cats who benefited from the horror of DST.
Here is yet another so called benefit: Fleas….
With the longer days and hotter weather, professors from the University of Illinois have pointed out that the winter flea epidemic of 2012 will now get worse, much worse.
A new report says that daylight savings time and the attendant longer, hotter days will cause more flea bites and problems, this also based on data and reports from professors at the University of Illinois that show there has been a flea epidemic in the winter of 2012. According to the University of Illinois studies, the winter of 2012 has been so mild it caused an increase in fleas. This assessment is based on data from both academic studies as well as veterinarian observations.
“The weather has not been cold enough to kill fleas and ticks, so they have stayed active,” says Justin Douglas, expert researcher with Planet Amazing. “Normally fleas and ticks will go into hibernation or die when the cold hits. But the mild winter in most places in the USA has allowed fleas to thrive, and thus we have a record increase in the amount of fleas,” Douglas says.
Now that the winter flea epidemic has gone unchecked in the Southern United States, Mr. Douglas says that flea bites will become worse on pets as the days get longer and hotter and daylight savings time kicks in. “Dog fleas and cat fleas go away in winter, because the cold forces the fleas into hibernation and also kills many. Because this did not happen in many places in the United States, fleas on dogs and fleas on cats will get worse,” he says.
“There are many reasons you can get fleas in your home even if you don’t have pets,” Mr. Douglas says. “Mice, possums and other wild animals often live under a house for part of the year and will bring massive amounts of fleas. Even if your dog or cat has a flea collar or other treatment, these type of fleas will become a big problem, especially during this time of year in 2012 when there is already an epidemic in some parts of the country.
Thanks to Yahoo for parts of this story.
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Daylight Saving time has zero effect on how cold the winter is. Whoever wrote this tripe believes that what time we set our clocks too affects the temperature outside.
Try not to be so stupid. It’s embarassing.
I’ve got news for the professors in Illinois, the fleas in Alabama don’t die in the winter they just take a short break between fall and spring. Same thing with the mosquitoes except this year they have had longer to feed and will be bigger and stronger than last year. Instead of insect spray we normally use this year will move up to shotguns and high powered rifles to combat the pests.