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Xavier_Onassis » 27 Apr 2023, 11:02 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:02 am

Or just hire a landscaping company to keep up your lawn and beds.

I always thought the Boy Scouts were creepy. Nerdy kids and pedophiles.

Sumela » 27 Apr 2023, 11:08 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:08 am

Wild turkeys love ticks. Flock of chickens too.

One of my Schnauzers watching turkeys having lunch.

 

DeezerShoove » 27 Apr 2023, 11:18 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:18 am

Wild turkeys love ticks. Flock of chickens too.

One of my Schnauzers watching turkeys having lunch.

Good looking dog

Deezer Shoove » 27 Apr 2023, 11:18 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:18 am

Wild turkeys love ticks. Flock of chickens too.

One of my Schnauzers watching turkeys having lunch.

 

Question, aren't fowl breeding grounds for lice and mites while eating ticks?

Nostradamus'omh » 27 Apr 2023, 11:24 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:24 am

Question, aren't fowl breeding grounds for lice and mites while eating ticks?

They must copulate in a more romantic setting.
I never see any of that... or lice and mites.

Deezer Shoove » 27 Apr 2023, 11:29 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:29 am

They must copulate in a more romantic setting.
I never see any of that... or lice and mites.

Lice and mites are usually smaller than most ticks plus they don't usually survive long off a host's body buried undercover of hair and feathers. You ever here of the bugs nickname "no see ums".

Nostradamus'omh » 27 Apr 2023, 11:35 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:35 am

Lice and mites are usually smaller than most ticks plus they don't usually survive long off a host's body buried undercover of hair and feathers. You ever here of the bugs nickname "no see ums".

No see ums are tiny flies.

DeezerShoove » 27 Apr 2023, 11:47 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:47 am

No see ums are tiny flies.

They are biting midges, not closely related to houseflies. here are 5000 species of them.
"For God so loved mankind that he created 5000 species of biting midgs, in addition to mosquitos, malaria for mosquitos to carry, Guinea worms and a great variety of cancers."

Before that fateful day on which Eve and Adam took extremely bad culinary advice from a loquacious snake who had long legs and loved to run track, all these creatures lived on vegetables.

Ceratopogonidae is a family of flies commonly known as no-see-ums, or biting midges, generally 1–3 millimetres (1⁄16–1⁄8 in) in length. The family includes more than 5,000 species,[2] distributed worldwide, apart from the Antarctic and the Arctic.Ceratopogonidae are holometabolous, meaning their development includes four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and imago or adult.[3] Most common species in warmer climates will take about two to six weeks to complete a life cycle. Both adult males and females feed on nectar. Most females also feed on the blood of vertebrates, including humans, to get protein for egg-laying. Their bites are painful, and can cause intensely itchy lesions.[4] Their mouthparts are well-developed for cutting the skin of their hosts. Some species prey on other insects.

Xavier_Onassis » 27 Apr 2023, 1:15 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 1:15 pm

Nothing tastes better

than a sweaty boy scout.    

         

Nostradamus'omh » 27 Apr 2023, 11:24 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:24 am

Question, aren't fowl breeding grounds for lice and mites while eating ticks?

Yes, they are!
 

nuckinfutz » 27 Apr 2023, 1:23 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 1:23 pm

Yes, they are!

Both dogs and humans can be plagued by the parasites that normally infect birds. Although they are often called lice, these parasites are actually mites. Bird mites are species-specific, that is, they can bite other animals but they cannot complete their life cycle without a bird host says Alameda County Vector Control Services District (ACVCSD). The real problem occurs when mites are able to travel back and forth between bird nesting sites and human households.

Xavier_Onassis » 27 Apr 2023, 11:02 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:02 am

If you have this many ticks, you've got a bigger problem.  Like being overrun with deer, dogs, coyotes, or some other nasty, infested heard of mammals.  I have a heard of up to 15 deer traveling through my "back yard" twice a day, and I don't have THAT kind of a tick problem!

These are not my ticks. I do not have any problem with ticks.
But if there WERE that many ticks about, I would do as the guy in the photo did and wind tape around my legs sticky side up.

Deezer Shoove » 27 Apr 2023, 11:47 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:47 am

No see ums are tiny flies.

that bite.

DeezerShoove » 27 Apr 2023, 11:47 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:47 am

No see ums are tiny flies.

I don't know what they are, but I've been attacked by the little **** before.  Not quite as bad of a reaction as with mosquitos, but I was covered in bites. I was out sailing on a friend's yacht down in Melbourne Florida for a couple of days.  The little F-ers come out at dusk, blown off shore from the swampy areas.
 

Xavier_Onassis » 27 Apr 2023, 11:02 am » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 11:02 am

Is it easier to tie them up?

nuckinfutz » 27 Apr 2023, 1:23 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Apr 2023, 1:23 pm

Yes, they are!

of all the time you have spent in the hospital (wasting California tax payers dollars) how many times have you gotten bed lice?