[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.
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Rob Tom AOD257
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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