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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...

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!