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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.

Oh my. I've had that happen before. Suddenly, our legs were...moving. It's amazing how many larvae can stick to you as you're walking through the weeds. Your ID is accurate. SIx legs, round body shape, long mouthparts, festoons around the caudal aspect (The curly, fancy design around the back...

They will come back in huge numbers in the fall when it cools down. It's normal for populations to die down in the heat of the summer. The larvae and nymphs will be out and looking for hosts pretty soon. I wouldn't stop the preventative yet. I have researchers collect black-legged ticks in New...

For what it's worth, I am not a huge fan of Advantix, either. Also available are Seresto collars, which I use on my cats. It's a fabulous product. If you are squeamish about giving oral or topical spot on products to your dogs, this is a really good alternative, you can just take the collar off...

If I had a dollar for every person to ask me that question, I'd be retired by now. I wish!

For what it's worth, there are three new products out for dogs, they are all oral tablets (or treats) that control both fleas and ticks for a month or more. Especially black-legged ticks, which are fortunately very sensitive to this stuff. Nexgard, Bravecto and Simparica. For you pineys, I...

You put an organophosphate on your dogs!? There are MUCH safer, effective things to use. Sorry about the repeated tick bites. How frustrating.

I have never in my life. I really should not be surprised at all given our current cultural...issues. But for heaven's sake. REALLY!???

Thanks for digging up this old thread, it's one of my fonder memories of exploring NJ with my husband. We were brave and stupid enough to walk all the way through the tunnel and back. I get the romanticizing, it truly was another world, like a rainforest. Plus there were fish in the tunnels...

The very last thing I want to do is to get into a political discussion! Let's just leave it at my disappointment at the timing of this event.

These people are not representing the citizens of NJ. It is a shameful, dramatic hissy fit for which the people now have to bear the burden. I am just disgusted with the lot of them.

Plus businesses rely on this holiday weekend as a significant source of income. He is reprehensible.