pests
Mosquitoes and the Nigerian rainy season
Numbers climb from April, and the reason is almost always sitting in your own compound. What actually reduces bites, and what only feels like it does.
3 min read
Guides
Advice for Nigerian homes
Practical guides on the pests that turn up in Nigerian homes, what causes them, and what actually works. Sources are cited so you can check them.
Published guides
pests
Keeping a Nigerian kitchen cockroach-free
Cockroaches will go without food far longer than they will go without water. That single fact decides where you should start.
3 min read
storage
Storing grain and flour against pantry moths
Most infestations do not fly in through the window. They arrive in the bag, already inside the food you just bought.
2 min read
prevention
Rodent-proofing a home
A mouse passes through a gap the width of a pencil. Closing the building is slower than setting a trap, and it is the only thing that ends the problem.
3 min read
seasonal
The Nigerian pest calendar
Pests do not arrive at random. They follow the rain, the heat and the harvest, which means most of them can be met before they become a problem.
3 min read
health
The illnesses mosquitoes carry in Nigeria
Malaria is the one everybody knows. It is not the only one, and the mosquitoes that carry the others bite at a different time of day.
4 min readHealth information
health
Lassa fever and the rats that carry it
Nigeria reports Lassa fever every year, and the animal that spreads it is a rat that lives in and around houses. Rodent control is public health here, not housekeeping.
4 min readHealth information
health
What flies and cockroaches carry
Neither of them bites you. They make people ill by walking on food after walking on something else.
3 min readHealth information