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    BUGS, BEARS, AND BACTERIA

    what is a red knot??
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    BUGS, BEARS, AND BACTERIA

    dont even get me going on the piping plovers..........i saw a bumper sticker the other day that said piping plover tastes like chicken!....well it made me laugh......
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    What's left?

    tiki murphs.....
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    What's left?

    yes they do
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    SNAKE HELP

    man i wish i could get over my phobia with snakes......superman had kryptonite..ive got snakes.....LOL....my knees knock together when i see one.......i went to brooksbie brick a few weeks ago.ive never seen the place before.i was by myself.....i was walking around and heard something next to...
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    Battle of the Blob

    wonder if any of the ocean county officials live on lagoons!!!LMAO!!..tom
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    Battle of the Blob

    after rereading the article it dawned on me...the problem is mans fault......manmade lagoons created in the 50s and 60s for more waterfront property......so we stopped the natural flow of the water and where it is stagnet it gets an abundance of algea.........guess it would be too hard to tell...
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    Battle of the Blob

    they dont know for sure that lawn chemicals are causing the blobs...they are grasping at straws.....the one that showed up in little egg last year was only a few blocks from my parents house on osborn island...........i challange the people saying that it was caused from lawn chemicals to find a...
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    Palace Amusements Building Demolished (5/26/04)

    you can either vote for crook #1 or crook #2....same outcome either way...a crook in office.....people still think that voting matters.........lmao..........lets try something different......nobody vote ...nobody........at least we wont be guilty of voting for a corrupt politician........
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    Hi folks

    i lived on lbi for six years...just moved off the island...but i work in barnegat light as a commercial fishing boat captain...i hear the term shoobie all the time.....for those who dont know where it came fromits referring to the box lunches they used to give to the tourists on the train that...
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    TICKS!

    renee..i hope you didnt take offense to my earlier reply....it was not directed at you...i was simply trying to say that anyone who doesnt think we have redbugs or chiggers around here may not have been to the places where one could come in contact with them..............after reading your reply...
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    TICKS!

    There's a lot of misinformation about ticks and chiggers. Lone star ticks are itty bitty at certain points and often mistaken for chiggers. Chiggers are actually tropical mites that don't live around here. What we call chiggers are actually redbugs. Some people, naturalists, etc., don't...
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    TICKS!

    The bites of the seed ticks often produce red irritating bumps or papules on the feet and legs.........................tell me about it!!!!...LOL..tom
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    GPS Review

    ive got a garmin...dont remeber the model # though....it uses the bluechip instead of cmap.....garmin makes a decent gps.......but in my field there are much better units than garmin.....however size is the problem as most use a computer hard drive and monitor...not going to fit in your car very...
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    GPS Review

    i use a gps map plotter for my commercial fishing boat...its great..has the bottom charts displayed...you just buy a differnt chip for different areas.....the one i use was about 15 hundred dollars and is one of the less expensive ones.....
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