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the earth made ticks as a love letter to goths who like vampires and spiders and nobody appreciates it
My kid about her first hand experience with chiggers, “I’m sad that chiggers are really real”
Same
A new bio/reference sheet for my sona, Pepper! :3
I feel like we should know more about nature 🌿🍃
I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.
I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."
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A Cry for Help.
I seek the Word of @cranquis and the Word of @wayfaringmd on proper tick removal technique. Where I live we’re being warned that populations will be high this summer and that 50% of the ticks are testing positive for Lyme disease. Between the cat, the dog, and three kids I know I’m going to have to deal with them soon.
I’m hearing so many conflicting things, even from MDs. Burn them with a match? Pour olive oil on them? I thought we weren’t supposed to do that stuff? Should I buy that fancy tick remover thing? Or does each one require a trip to the office? Help me Crayfaring, you’re my only hope! 😩
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
*remembers the time I actually took the road less traveled and discovered a gorgeous clearing in the woods behind my house, only to find when I was already halfway on the loop trail back home that I had stepped in a nest of baby ticks and was covered in easily 200 ticks the size of a dot from a pencil, leading to the clearing I found being dubbed Festering Meadows*
I took the Highway to Hell