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And Boyd, have you tried picaridin yet? (Cutter Advanced).

That's scary! The ticks must really not be offended by it. The thing with DEET is that it doesn't kill them, it just bothers them. Permethrin does kill them. Interesting about your yard. I may have to collect some piney ticks for my lab. Bird flu is still very much a threat, it's still...

Hewey, are you a diver? :) I just spoke to my sister who's visiting a friend in Orlando. She said it was getting "chilly", it was almost down to 60.

I am glad that dirtbag was apprehended. That's great news. Some people jsut have no soul.

Congratulations! :dance: Valentine's Day is also my birthday. So to that end, we will probably celebrate by me not cooking dinner, ordering Chinese takeout and watching a movie. :)

The diseases are not new, but they used to be exotic. They infiltrated the country and are spreading around with their hosts, several different kinds of ticks. Well, Lyme disease is a "new" disease, but babesiosis, bartonella, ehrlichiosis, etc, have been around for a while. They were just...

We did the same thing and have not received ours yet, either.

I do that sort of research for a living, and DEET is actually a pretty good repellent, as is picaridin, (the active in Cutter Advanced) but your mileage may vary. Pyrethroids (permethrin, pyrethrin, etc etc) do work well too. I find that I have to reapply any of those every few hours at least...

So what would the Land Rover people say about those of us who tool around the Pines in a Jeep? :dance:

Another reminder to spray yourself with repellent every couple of hours while you're out there, and take care in doing tick checks when you get home. Ticks scare the crap out of me. Tick species and their tick-borne diseases are creeping their way up the coast from the southeast. I've been doing...

Ooh! That collection is on display again? Thanks for the heads up! :) I also went to see it in the 70s in NY.

Oops oops.

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Well, that would make sense since we did have a bad infestation this past summer. I was in a section of the pines that was full of hardwoods, and thought it was raining. It was caterpillar poop I was hearing though. They are devastating.

Good to know.

Thank you for that. I do believe we will be participating. It sounds like a good day.

I'm sorry. I just read what I wrote. It was early and I hadn't had coffee yet. It's a masters in Biology, not env science.

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