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Our July veterinary parasitology meeting this year is dedicated to ticks and tick-borne diseases, so hopefully we will see new and cutting edge deer treatment research, which I'll pass along if anything relevant comes up.

They scent mark spots with glands under their eyes, too, so they do rub their faces on stuff, and most of the ticks are on their head, so it may be a possibility.

Bob, I think it's kind of a brilliant idea. I just advised my sister to get a bunch for her yard in Connecticut, they have a lot of black-legged ticks and are in the heart of Lyme territory (just east of the town of Lyme). I think they absolutely can be valuable to reducing the populations of...

It's very very wrinkled to allow for expansion, kind of like crepe paper. They also actually manufacture new skin as they feed.

So here's an interesting tidbit about the invasive tick that's been all over the news: They can reproduce by parthenogenesis, just like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park. This is one of the reasons they aren't being contained. I learned a thing today. One of my classmates works at the USDA...

I'm probably going to do my thesis on one of these emerging diseases, so I'll get to read it plenty. Lucky me. :)

I am with you on this.

This is as preposterous as the idea that people would pay a lot of money to install a listening device in their house. ...Oh, wait.

Since you are all nerds and like to take pictures, the best way to ID them or any other ticks is by looking at the shape of the basis capitulum, which is basically the head part. H. longicornis, as the name suggests, has two projections that look like long horns on the dorsal aspect of the basis...

This tick has apparently survived efforts to eradicate it, and has taken hold. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2018/04/21/new-jersey-is-dealing-with-a-tick-species-that-is-new-to-america/#4a51834f7bc1

This is the beginning of the most dangerous time of year for deer ticks. Bastards!

I can tell you first hand, that marketing works. Holy cow. I have to stop buying shoes.

I think that's ridiculous. This goes both ways, you know.

An old neighbor of mine worked there, his job was to make rubber bladders to store cranberry products because they were so corrosive. I can't recall what the exact product was that was stored in these bladders, whether it was a consumer-level thing or a part of manufacturing.

Ugh. This gives me flashbacks. This is the very reason my house flooded right to the rafters more than once.

That's why we recommend year-round heartworm prevention for your dogs and cats. :) I see them here in Michigan all the time. There was one in my bathroom last week when it was below zero.

I totally believe Bigfoot exists. He doesn't live in the pines anymore though. The property taxes in NJ are too high.

I am getting them, too. I have a NJ phone number but I don't live in NJ or have an account with any electric company.

Seconded. I felt a little better that this has occurred before without consequence. I think he's still concerned about it though, we'll see.

This past week I spoke to my professor and mentor about this (Dwight Bowman at Cornell University). He told me that this is at least the 3rd time he's heard about this tick being imported. It never seems to take hold, fortunately. Who knows with the changing climate when it will finally get a...