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

[Carmine Vasile]

Rob: If you want to learn about Lyme Disease and how Uncle Sam created it,  Google "lab 257 plum island". Here's one hit: LAB: 257 Plum Island.
 The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ 
Laboratory by Michael C Carroll Nestled near the Hamptons, the ...  
   If you hang clothes out to dry, tick-carrying birds can land on them. If your clothes are too close to the ground, deer, racoons, or rats can transfer ticks to them. 
Carmine

> To: greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org
> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:19:28 -0400
> From: archilogic at yahoo.ca
> Subject: [Greenbuilding] Ticks & Fabric (was Re: ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers	Program Launch)
> 
> 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

 		 	   		  
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