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Ticks may be one of the least pleasant signs that spring is officially here. Fortunately, they are a nuisance that wanes as the spring rolls into summer and the temperatures heat up. Ticks are an external parasite that attempt to grab onto a host that wanders near. They can be found, like this one, sitting atop a blade of grass or other plant, waving their front legs, ready to grab onto the next passerby. This is called "questing". If a tick succeeds in finding a host, it finds a suitable spot, latches on and fills with blood. The tick then drops off and either completes its next life stage, or, if it is an adult female, lays eggs.
Photo Credit: Krista Lundgren/USFWS
Black-legged ticks that can transmit Lyme Disease, Anaplasmosis and Babesiosis are encountered in areas that maintain moisture, such as tall grass and wooded areas. By avoiding tick habitat you can avoid a tick encounter. For more information on ticks: www.nysipm.cornell.edu/whats_bugging_you/ticks/default.asp
Black-legged ticks that can transmit Lyme Disease, Anaplasmosis and Babesiosis are encountered in areas that maintain moisture, such as tall grass and wooded areas. By staying on trails and avoiding tick habitat you can avoid a tick encounter. For more information on ticks: www.nysipm.cornell.edu/whats_bugging_you/ticks/default.asp
why do ticks latch onto dog ears? is it because of the thin skin? he picked this up on an evening walk, i guess, and then we found it the next morning. the little guy was nestled in underneath the fatty. chris picked 'em off with a tweezer...i thought for sure the big one was gonna burst and leave us all covered in dog blood.
BODY PARTS is the Topic for SATURDAY THE 14TH JULY, 2012
The Hands of Time
Strobist info 1/2 shoot through umbrella above camera
The Tick Pencil is a Pencil featuring Tick sayings with a Tick head topper. It was given away with children's haircuts in 1997 at Cost Cutter's. On the clear package reads the following: Warning Choking Hazard - Toy contains small part. Not for children under 3 years. This bag is not a toy. Keep bag out of reach of children. Please dispose of properly. Made in China. On the head says. 1998 FCN Made in China. On the pencil says, "Cost Cutters, Kid Head Quarters" "Why is everyone messing with my mind?", "My Mind is My Weakness", "Evil is Never in Fashion" "The Tick" "No time for sanity, Chum", "Why is everyone messing with my mind?" "Justice is always my business", "Now...who wants to be a hero?", Fox Kids Network, 1998.
Book Four. by Greg Evason.
North Vancouver [ie Delhi], Silver Birch Press, august 1992. 1oo copies issued as The Berkeley Horse 4o.
2o pp/16 printed, offset. 4-3/16 x 5-3/8, stapled wrappers.
prose, with cover visual poem by Carlyle Baker.
1o.oo
Sedos, the City of London's premier amateur theatre company, presents tick tick... BOOM!, a musical by Jonathan Larson about the courage it takes to follow your dreams, at the Bridewell Theatre from 15-19 September 2015.
Find out more at www.sedos.co.uk/2015/ticktickboom.htm
Bat Tick, macro view, Europe, Australia, Northafrika, Southasia; feeding on humans too (Borreliosis!)
The Daily Shoot #DS510 Illustrate time
I went for the typical clock shoot with a 15 sec exposure to see every second
Black-legged ticks that can transmit Lyme Disease, Anaplasmosis and Babesiosis are encountered in areas that maintain moisture, such as tall grass and wooded areas. By avoiding tick habitat you can avoid a tick encounter. For more information on ticks: www.nysipm.cornell.edu/whats_bugging_you/ticks/default.asp
Head of a female Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum). Nikon D40, NDPL-1(2X) microscope adapter, Swift M3200 microscope, 4X objective, ISO 400, 1 second exposure for each of 13 images, focus stacked using CombineZM. Oblique illumination using flashlight.
Ixodes holocyclus
Family: Ixodidae
Order: Ixodida
Superorder: Parisitiformes
Class Arachnida
The Paralysis Tick can be confused with other species such as the Brown Dog Tick.
In this case the tick is engorged on the blood of its host ( a dog). A local veterinary clinic kindly provided the specimen.
In this photo, we can see the front pair of legs and the rear pair are darker than the others. This is a distinguishing feature of Ixodes holocyclus as is the shape of the palps and the lack of festoons (around the rear margin of the back half of the tick’s body). The proboscis is barbed which is also a feature found in I. holocyclus. The anal groove forming a line anterior to the anus is a characteristic of Ixodes spp.
This species is the most medically significant of the Australian Ticks and can inject toxins into its host. According to the NSW Health authority, early symptoms in humans include “rashes, headache, fever, flu like symptoms, tenderness of lymph nodes, unsteady gait, intolerance to bright light, increased weakness of the limbs and partial facial paralysis”. Symptoms can increase as the tick feeds.
There is controversy as to whether or not Australia has ticks that carry the Lyme's disease bacteria. Testing has, so far, failed to prove that Australia has the bacterium Borrelia bergdorferi, which causes the US version of Lymes disease. However, it is beyond question that a lot of people have suffered from similar chronic and debilitating Lymes symptoms. The generally accepted explanation is that we have “Lymes-like” disease or diseases, often with an uncertain cause. The current thinking is that there are over 20 species of bacteria in a Borrelia-species complex. At least 8 of these are also known to cause Lymes symptoms in Europe and Asia. It is possible there are related Australian bacteria with similar disease capabilities. Australia also has tick-transmitted bacterial typhus that can also be debilitating.
Ixodes holocyclus is one of several ticks that is thought to trigger an unusual immune response that results in an allergy to mammalian meat. The tick injects a protein known as alpha-gal. The immune response to this is, subsequently, also triggered by carbohydrate molecules on the surface of mammalian meat.
This is a female so she would be ready mate, if she hasn’t already, and then lay eggs. They generally feed on up to three hosts in their typically two year life span. Judging by the size of this wee beasty, I guess she is was up to the final host now. Males typically die after mating with one or two females. The females only lay one batch of eggs and then usually die soon after laying.
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A river somewhere in Wales, wish I had taken my tripod and ND filter.
I assume the tick / cross indicates when it's safe to use the river for canoeing.
"The Hardest Hit" March & Parliamentary Lobby - 11.05.2011
Part (1) The Prelude to the March
Between 8,000 and 10,000 disabled people with long-term conditions, their families, carers and many trade union supporters assembled on London's Victoria Embankment to protest against the punitive cuts to welfare spending implimented by David Cameron's "Caring Conservatives", which are specifically aimed at the sick and the disabled. Using French IT company ATOS Origin to do the government's dirtiest work, the disabled are being summoned to "Work Capability Assessments" at ATOS Regional offices up and down the country, and are then subjected to a twenty minute examination by often medically unqualified staff who ask a series of questions and then try fill in tick boxes on their completely inflexible computerised forms, which are inadequate for coping with the very serious complexities which go with long-term disabilities. These accumulated scores then form that disabled person's Work Capability score. Input from Doctors, Carers and Senior Consultants is not allowed to be considered when going through this sham exercise designed to force people off Disablity benefits and mobility allowances - crucial to many working disabled people, many of whom have had to stop work because they cannot get there any more thanks to this incompetent process. Instead they become trapped in their homes, unable to shop for themselves or socialise.
The ATOS assessors are paid a bounty of around £70 for every person they instruct the Department of Work and Pensions to be thrown off their benefits, and those assessors with medical qualifications are instructed by the government when they sign contracts to do assessment work with ATOS that the normal medical code of conduct regarding their innate responsibility for the well-being of the patient is waived!
Since the introduction of this punitive and intensely cruel process several disabled people have committed suicide, having had their support ripped away from them, with many disabled people becoming homeless. There are also many instances where people with terminal illnesses have been told they are fit for work, their benefits stopped, and have died within weeks in absolute abject misery because the State has treated them monstrously.
Many previously independent disabled people in their own homes have had to be institutionalised in homes run by private comanies who are egging the government forward because they make a huge profit from running these homes. The sickest irony is that it costs around £10,000 per year to keep a disabled person living in their own home, independent and contributing to society, yet it costs the taxpayer between £30/40,000 to put them in a care home where they may be neglected or even worse abused.
Assaults and threats against the disabled has increased sharply over the last year as a direct result of the government's insulting press campaigns which have painted the sick and disabled as workshy scroungers. Nothing could be further from the truth, but as long as those in power have the ability to behave so appallingly towards the very weakest and most vulnerable members of our society just to score cheap political points, then that is what an increasing number of people in this country want to believe.
In December of last year Iain Duncan Smith, the minister for Work and Pensions, said of the disabled in Rupert Murcoch's Sun Newspaper interview:
"It embarrasses me. I think this is the greatest country on earth.
“What I cannot bear is the idea that this country was the workshop of the world. It gave everybody the free market, the industrial revolution. You think what we did to change the world. This was the place that everyone looked to.
“Yet we have managed to create a block of people in Britain who do not add anything to the greatness of this country.
“They have become conditioned to be users of services, not providers of money. This is a huge part of the reason we have this massive deficit. We have had to borrow vast sums of money. We went on this inflated spending spree."
Ever since that statement by Iain Duncan Smith the Sun, the Daily Express and the Telegraph have run continual lie-filled campaigns in their pages stating that around 75% of the disabled are fully able to work but because they are little more than complaining parasites who just want to sit at home enjoying themselves at "Our" expense. The rapid consequence of this disgusting, immoral slur which could be easily mistaken for the propaganda campaigns of the National Socialist Party in pre-war Germany.
Because the government has picked on the Disabled first, they are getting away with it. Most people in this country are unable to even begin to understand what it is like living with a severe disability. Most people in this country are too stupid and dull to have the intelligence to question what they are being told to think by the right-wing press who serve the Global Capitalists hiding 'round the curtain waiting to get the nod to start taking over huge parts of our National Health Service using the appalling American model which is all about profit and not about the patient's actual needs.
This is what David Cameron has planned for Great Britain, and he's starting with the disabled because disability makes most people uncomfortable because they're so self-obsessed and shallow that human empathy is too rich an emotion for them to grasp. Instead they are turning against the disabled, and talking to many disabled people it is very clear that a lot of them are now living in a climate of fear, hounded by bullies in their local communities, taunted in the streets, often physically abused or spat at, their homes broken into, their meagre possessions stolen.
And all this human misery because David Cameron's Conservatives will not punish the banks and hedge funds which caused the recession which has wrecked our economy, and he will not close down the corporate tax loopholes, shut down the tax havens and start throwing corrupt, greedy financiers in prison where they belong. All this human pain because Conservatives think that the State should stop providing services cheaply and reasonably efficiently, and instead services should be run by completely unaccountable private comanies whose only masters are the shareholders. This is all about profit, nothing else. profit at the expense of human pain and fear.
On appeal following an ATOS assessment around 70% of people win their cases, proving how incompetent ATOS' system is, but the cruellest part is that an appeal can take a year, during which that disabled person's mental and physical health has deteriorated. Many are driven to desperation and suicidal thinking. The government is just about to make it much, much harder to appeal against an ATOS decision by making it impossible to get any form of Legal Aid which would pay for a solicitor armed with the Law to represent you. It seems unbelievably wicked and cruel to me.
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
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d98319a. Bush tick. Ixodes sp ? or related genus.
These little buggers are the scourge of the bush. Worse than snakes or spiders. They cause horrible weeping sores that itch like crazy and last for months.
Yorkshire batting, against Derbyshire, at the University of Leeds Sports Park, Weetwood, towards the end of the first day of a Second XI County Championship Group Two fixture. The bowler is Blair Tickner, the former New Zealand Test and ODI international. After 96 overs of action, the hosts, who secured three bowling points, trailed Derbyshire by 79 runs, with six wickets remaining. Derbyshire went on to win the match, by 37 runs, with more than a day to spare.
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Yorkshire Second XI versus Derbyshire Second XI @ Leeds University Sports Park, Weetwood
Second XI County Championship, Group Two (day one of four, 96 overs minimum, 11am start)
Admission: free. Programme: none. Attendance: 41 (h/c). Yorkshire won the toss and elected to bowl. Derbyshire 227 off 56.2 overs (Blair Tickner 51 not out, Anuj Dal 47, George Lavelle 28, Ben Coad 3-19, Jay Singh 3-61) 0pts lead by 79 runs Yorkshire 148-4 off 39 overs (Finlay Bean 43, Jawad Akhtar 34 not out, Noah Kelly 34 not out, Matty Stewart 2-20) 3pts. Umpires: N A Mallender, C S McGarry
Got a ticket? This one was riding for free on me. Nasty creature. It is like 1mm big. Used my 12-35 with macro lens attached.
Black-legged ticks that can transmit Lyme Disease, Anaplasmosis and Babesiosis are encountered in areas that maintain moisture, such as tall grass and wooded areas. By staying on trails and avoiding tick habitat you can avoid a tick encounter. For more information on ticks: www.nysipm.cornell.edu/whats_bugging_you/ticks/default.asp
Our Daily Challenge, January 5, 2021, JANUARY, gate to the grandfather clock representing time... past and future. Does that work?
Best super-villain ever, am I wrong?
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