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Yeah, I'll have to side with 46er. I appreciate the thought exercise about it. I don't mean to stoke what is apparently a fire about this topic.

Why not? Honestly it's not something I've given a ton of thought to. Is it detrimental?

It's why we put a blaze orange sheet on our donkey.

Who hunts deer with a pistol?!?

WOW. That sucks. Haemophysalis longicornis. They are bad news and are very small, even smaller than Ixodes. Thanks so much for sharing this.

I can't decide if that's funny or sad. I'm going to go with funny. I was in Galveston several years ago and noted some sort of frenzy happening in the gulf. I asked around and found out that there was a lone flamingo in the water, with about 100 people with tripods and scopes literally...

It isn't going to help mange, sorry to say. But you are right, one of the biggest selling insecticides for crops and pets is derived from tobacco-imidacloprid. It's not active against acarines (spiders, mites, ticks, etc) at all, just insects.

If you don't give a giant dose, like 10x what the foxes are supposed to get, anything that comes along won't be hurt. They'll be purged of worms though!

Awesome!!!

We have way more here in Michigan than we've ever had. It's crazy, they are all over the deck furniture, hundreds of them. And more of them in the house, plopping fatly to the floor from tables and counters.

I hear that. Here's hoping that doesn't happen! Are you a researcher?

It was an intensive two week acaralogy course held at Ohio State University. I'm a veterinary parasitologist/grad student at Cornell.

I am lucky enough to have tak I am lucky enough to have taken a tick taxonomy and ID class with Dr. Beati. She brought her specimens from around the world, including a really beautiful, large tick that only lives on the anus of rhinoceri. No joke!

I learned a thing today: You can't watch the eclipse with your phone.

I am planning to watch with my phone.

You know, those memes just aren't getting old.

Ooh boy. Sometimes the simplest thing is the best solution. I shot this with my iPhone, a dried up ant that I picked up off the floor and threw onto the base of my dissecting scope. I am in graduate school right now at Cornell, and this will be really useful. Handsome lad, if not a little...

Boyd, have you found anything to be effective in repelling chiggers?

Thank you! The hypostome shot is great. You can really see how they bite and then hang on with all those backward pointing plates.

How do shoot the super close-up? This is making me want to get a camera for my dissecting microscope.