LegendInMyMind

A frighteningly large percentage of people are incapable of picking out the county in which they live on a map of their state. Even if they could adequately read a weather radar, what they see would be of no use to them.

Dunning and Kruger are just running amok all over this thread.

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BREAKING: GPS jamming in the UAE is being done by the government of UAE.

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Well, alright then.

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Would vote for this guy every time he ran for sheriff.

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Hell, Grady needs to be governor.

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When I was a kid, pretty much lived in the woods and in the fields and would find a tick every once in a while.

There’s a fenced common area in my little neighborhood that is wooded, but is mowed fairly regularly. Gets to mid shin at most, but is cut pretty low most of the time. So far this spring, we’ve found around 20 ticks between him and us. Remember this fenced area is surrounded by neighborhoods not woods.

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There are two issues that could be at play here. To your first point, the major change from the time you were a kid to now is to the landscape, or habitat. Every bit of development that happens alters that habitat, decreasing its coverage and fragmenting what suitable habitat is left. Development also degrades what habitat is left, ridding the ecosystem of native plant species in exchange for much less useful non-native plants and grasses. This serves to concentrate all species into smaller and smaller viable areas, leading to some areas within an ecosystem — those of lesser quality — having a much lower biomass while others can be overridden with certain species. This concentrates mammalian species into a smaller footprint, leading to the animals and insects that prey on or parasitize those species to also increase in number within the viable areas.

The other issue at play here centers on control methods that are used. Being that you live in a neighborhood with managed common areas, I'd assume that you all have someone (maybe a company) managing the areas for pests. If that company has sprayed for ticks for an extended period of time those ticks could very well develop immunity to whatever pesticide is being used. That problem is compounded/exacerbated when you account for homeowners doing their own pest control at different times, different, rates, etc.

New research has found that ticks can fairly quickly develop some degree immunity to these chemicals. That's not surprising, the same is known to occur in mosquitos and other pest insects. The more interesting part of that research found that ticks can pass that immunity on to future generations via their genetics, and those generations can continue to develop stronger and stronger immunity.

I would try to ask whoever is responsible for pest management if they are treating for ticks and if they have changed the chemical (not just the product) that they are using over time. Periodically changing chemicals that are used guard against, and slows down, that immunity development.

*This is not AI, and it is, in fact, a wall of text. I don't have it in me right now to proofread.

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If you tried to tell these people Lonestar ticks don't bite humans they would also probably tell you, you are lying.

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You struggle to follow conversations, huh?

Wow.

Nope.

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Glad the admin is finally following my advice from years ago.

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Gotta dig out of one big arse hole before they can even get to treading water.

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You don't know what you are talking about.

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You say this so confidently......

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I didn’t have enough time to see the full message because it popped up and disappeared. Really cryptic and strange

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Oh, that was definitely a dick pic. Probably from Rummy. He does that when he's back on the bottle.