[Greenbuilding] Ticks & Fabric (was Re: ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch)

RT archilogic at yahoo.ca
Sat Jul 28 15:19:28 CDT 2012


On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:00:43 -0400, Sacie Lambertson  
<sacie.lambertson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting Alan, we have loads of ticks here but, thankfully the  
> incidence of Lyme Disease is nearly nil.
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Alan Abrams  
> <alan at abramsdesignbuild.com>wrote:

>> work on tick surveys:  an area is staked out, and the ground is
>> methodically dragged with piece of a bedsheet of a specified size and
>> weave.  The ticks cling to the fabric, which is unfurled, allowing the
>> surveyor to classify and tally the catch.


Wa-a-ait a minute. I'm not convinced from the above that tick's are  
attracted to fabric.

If I were laying out in a field of tall grass and some giant dragged the  
area with a huge sheet of some sort, I'd probably grab it too in order to  
avoid being run over and dragged over the ground by it.
Does that give me a natural affinity for fabric ?
Don't think so.

A natural affinity for survival from attack by big foreign masses trying  
to run me over ? "Yes".

Apparently there are ticks in my neighbourhood too because my neighbours  
and their mutts keep finding them on themselves. But I've never found one  
on me on=r my mutts. In my naivite I attributed my luck to my penchant for  
Wellingtons.
-- 
=== * ===
Rob Tom					AOD257
Kanata, Ontario, Canada

< A r c h i L o g i c  at  Y a h o o  dot  c a  >
(manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply")




More information about the Greenbuilding mailing list