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To: bgill

wish the cold would kill off ticks & Lyme disease


2 posted on 02/19/2019 9:35:09 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Yep, did it kill all the damn ticks?


7 posted on 02/19/2019 9:39:11 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Bob434

“wish the cold would kill off ticks & Lyme disease”

Some bleeding heart liberal will protest the extinction of this species.


12 posted on 02/19/2019 9:42:27 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Bob434
The New England Winter of 1979-80 did a very big number on the gypsy moth population. Took about 20 years for the encroach to start creeping North again.

(Thanks to Tufts U. for releasing its samples into the wild in the 1800s after the caterpillars proved unsatisfactory replacements for silk worms.)

13 posted on 02/19/2019 9:44:05 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Bob434

This weather is killing lots of ticks. After three years of warm winters, this one was overdue.


14 posted on 02/19/2019 9:47:05 AM PST by centurion316
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To: Bob434; Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; snooter55; carriage_hill; Lockbox; All

Can We add 95% of All the politicians to the list ???


30 posted on 02/19/2019 10:24:23 AM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! C ?)
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To: Bob434
Ticks can burrow into the soil and re-emerge up to 16yrs later. The really effective chemicals we used on lawns and fields -- Malathion Concentrate and Chem-Tox Dursban Plus Concentrate -- were EPA-banned, 10-15yrs ago. It'd take -10° to -50° to kill ticks, but won't kill eggs, if already laid.
46 posted on 02/19/2019 2:26:39 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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