Asia's longhorned tick takes its first documented bite in the U.S.

MPR ^ | 7 June 2019 | Fran Kritz

[DUMBGRUNT]

And this species is definitely different from other ticks -- in ways that are potentially worrisome to humans.

First, female longhorned ticks can reproduce without the aid of a male. A single female can lay thousands of eggs, which will hatch into more females.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I thought that was funny!!!

[smvoice]

Hey! I craws them rike I sees them

[oldasrocks]

I’d gladly share our Missouri seed ticks with anyone.

[gov_bean_ counter]

LOL. You’re killing me!!!

[combat_boots]

Then you should have said, “velly glad...”

;> snark

[Karl Spooner]

"But the tick proved to be tenacious. In October, it was found to have completely infested the paddock. The infestation was so bad that the ticks began crawling on the pants of investigators soon after they were inside the paddock. The ticks numbered in the hundreds and had concentrated "mostly on the sheep's ears and face," according to a paper by Rutgers, the Hunterdon County Department of Health and Smithsonian Institution.

Investigators found that the critters, in all life stages, had swarmed both the sheep and its paddock. The sheep had never been outside the U.S., so how the tick got there is unknown. The sheep later died, most likely from an unrelated cause."

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/environment/invasive-tick-survived-winter-in-n-j-concerning-agricultural-officials-20180423.html

[DUMBGRUNT]

Fever could kill a third of China’s pigs. That’s almost as many as are farmed in the US and Europe

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/15/business/african-swine-fever-hebei-pork-scn-intl/index.html

NB: There are no winners in a pissing match.
Said LBJ.

[smvoice]

Trank ju 😉!

[DUMBGRUNT]

Ticks are hellacious critters.

One summer the whole family picked up a mass of ticks.

After the strip search, we put all the clothes in the washer, then dryer...
Still, living ticks clinging to the clothes coming out of the dryer!

Then we moved up to chemical warfare.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Parthenogenesis was a hot topic years back among the rainbow set.

[DUMBGRUNT]

And that photo is before they are engorged.
(With your precious bodily fluids)

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Guinea hens eat them...

[Karl Spooner]

LOL. They must have read the book, Tips for Ticks - How to Survive Washer and Dryer Combat.

[curdogmen]

just pulled two off each leg....they will blister up nice and form a huge scab 5 times as big as the tick that bit me. BUT I really hate the southern ozark chiggers... my goodness did not see those coming when we moved from southern cal

[sparklite2]

Can you still say chiggers? Or is it chigroes?

My uncle in New Mexico had a nice lawn that us kids played on during a short visit. We were eaten up by chiggers.

[Karl Spooner]

Most chickens will eat most any bug, won’t they?

[kaktuskid]

Yep, and chickens love scorpions ( they are like lobster to them)

[OrangeHoof]

RYME DISEASE

That pathogen which has already infected Rev. Jackson and many inner-city rappers?

[Mastador1]

[fr_freak]

Did none of your teachers in school ever teach you to label your photos before presenting them? For all I know, I’m looking at modern art