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Over the last few weeks, Nevada Department of Agriculture has reported of finding a rabid bat in Douglas County. Bats are a perfect carrier for rabies as it can infect both humans and pets if they are bitten. Bat f***s, or guano.
Rabies in bats can look different, but typically, if you see a bat in daylight or in places they usually wouldn’t be, contact your local animal disease lab and do not interact with the bat in anyway until they provide assistance and advice. Rabies in bats can only be confirmed with laboratory testing.

Cankerworms, or more commonly known as inchworms, are common no matter where you are, but did you know that they are not exactly worms, but larvae? You may have seen a worm dangling from a tree, suspended by a web downwards blowing in the Nevada winds.
Cankerworms are concentrated in more urban areas and woodlands, making Reno and the rest of Northern Nevada a perfect area for them to thrive. There are cankerworms for the spring and the fall seasons, so they can be a year-round issue if proper precaution is not taken. With the forests and trees, we have combined with the drought we live in; they do a significant amount of damage on the weak trees. Cankerworms eat leaves on the trees, where they can easily defoliate it, resulting overall in the death of the entire tree. They typically eat for 5 weeks in the summer, giving them enough time to stress your tree prior to the metamorphosis into the moth. Now that the life cycle is towards the end, egg laying begins for the future worm.
HiLow Services provide a deep root injection for your trees where we inject beneficial substances like fertilizer, insecticide, and soil amendments, and it travels systemically through the tree, even up to the leaves. When the cankerworms try to eat the leaves, they will ingest the insecticide from the injection, ultimately protecting your tree from their harm. If we notice an infestation, a topical, low toxic product is sprayed for instant control and eradication.