If you live in the United States, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about monkeypox in the news lately—especially if you’re part of the small number of people who have contracted the illness since its reemergence recently.

What is Monkeypox?
Like many other diseases, monkeypox can be found in insects. A person might get monkeypox from handling an insect or item that has monkeypox on it. Symptoms of insect-borne illnesses are commonly similar to flu symptoms including fever, headache, weakness, aches and pains, chills, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. The incubation period for most illnesses is 1–3 days but might be up to 6 days with more serious infections such as plague or typhoid.

At first site a single termite doesn’t look dangerous or menacing, but a colony of termites can cause serious damage to a home in a very short amount of time.  As the weather in Houston is getting warmer,  termites are becoming more active and tend to swarm after rainfall on a warm day.   They began to start swarming anywhere from February until late in the fall depending on the type of termite.

Bed bugs are oval shaped and a brownish color.  They live on the blood of animals or humans.  After feeding their bodies swell and are a reddish color.