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Methods for managing bites and stings — plus tips to deter insects this season

Pests becoming part of summertime leisure is an inevitable drawback. Yet, insects are not just more noticeable during summer — their activity actually peaks during these months. “The external temperatures fuel the metabolic rates of bugs,” Michael Raupp, an entomology professor at the University of Maryland, explains to Yahoo Life. “The hotter it gets, the more vigorous their feeding and …

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Does the role of parenting induce feelings of isolation and exhaustion? Insights from a recent study suggest you’re in good company.

Raising children, particularly infants or toddlers, can often feel quite solitary. Whether it’s managing finances, ensuring children are nourished and a home is maintained or coping with sleep schedules, sickness, intense activity calendars and schoolwork, the duties of child-rearing can lead 66% of caregivers — that’s the precise figure — to experience feelings of fatigue and seclusion, as per a …

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