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...it is past time to weed this garden! Oops!
It was tough to get an outside picture today because the wind decided to start blowing quite hard this afternoon!!
Clock Dress by Everything for the Girl...on etsy; Squeaky Monkey stockings and BHC boots
Thanks, Alisa...this is such a darling dress!!
Amblyomma sp. - i have a feeling this may be a tick nymph or larva and not a genuine chigger, but i use the term as a catchall for any of the tiny Acari who have the same effect. found my pants legs covered in these, what look like moving tiny specks to the bare eye, both yesterday and today after a woods/field walk.
Tick season is generally associated, but not restricted, to warm weather. Ticks generally live in tall grass and wooded areas and attach themselves to a host somewhere where it is warm & relatively hairless. Tick borne diseases can be permanently disabling and, therefore, the sooner a tick is discovered & removed, the less risk to your dog: dogs.about.com/od/dogandpuppyhealth/a/ticksondogs.htm
In spite of the cooler weather, a tick attached itself to Jersey during a walk in the woods:
Top: Tick attached to the top of Jersey’s neck & tick being removed using a Tick Key (my preferred tool for removing ticks).
Bottom: Top & bottom view of the removed tick.
Ixodes sp. (Acari, Ixodidae). Body length: 2,8 mm.
Every time I go out to the wild, always meet them. It is very common here in Hungary, no excursions without tick attack on me. This specimen has closed its legs when I fixed the leaf with a clamp, but then stayed quiet so I managed to do the stacking sequence.
Natural light & MP-E65 macro lens at 4,8x magnification, f/5, 1/6 sec., ISO-200. 28 exposures stacked in Zerene Stacker.
Our vet has moved onto the rare disease transmitted by ticks: Lyme Disease, Query Fever, and Ehrlichia. This is a poster produced by the company Frontline, whose product we use to protect andy against ticks. But we found a tick on Andy on the 9th.
The symptoms do not quite seem to match but apparently these tick born blood infections present all sorts of symptoms so it is worth a try. Andy is being given Doxycycline, the most famous medicine for treating these things.
But id rather deal with some potently dangerous ticks than inconsiderate asses at work.
This one was rather fast as well . 72 degrees cloudy .
Graduate student Krista Garner identifies tick species collected around Arkansas. A citizen science project led by Division of Agriculture entomologists Ashley Dowling and Kelly Loftin resulted in an interactive map that shows the distribution of tick species around Arkansas and the tick-borne disease pathogens identified in each location. (UA System Division of Agriculture photo by Fred Miller)
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