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Pierre1333
·Worked as a greenkeeper for 5 years in Kent. Spent most of my childhood frolicking in high grass...never, ever got bitten by a tick...
And so it begins...Brood X
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ConElPueblo
·Worked as a greenkeeper for 5 years in Kent. Spent most of my childhood frolicking in high grass...never, ever got bitten by a tick...
Ticks are pretty choosy about who they bite. I have army colleagues who have never seen one while I attract the bastards like you wouldn't believe it. I once got bitten while running in central Copenhagen. I've luckily only contracted borreliosis once (knock on wood) which got treated before it did any damage.
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Pierre1333
·Ticks are pretty choosy about who they bite. I have army colleagues who have never seen one while I attract the bastards like you wouldn't believe it. I once got bitten while running in central Copenhagen. I've luckily only contracted borreliosis once (knock on wood) which got treated before it did any damage.
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ConElPueblo
·Damn, sorry man. The history behind lime disease is a bit...conspiratorial...
Never heard of that story before. Sounds like a complete fabrication to me, just like most of those "theories" 😀
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Pierre1333
·Never heard of that story before. Sounds like a complete fabrication to me, just like most of those "theories" 😀
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Foo2rama
··Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can.Damn, sorry man. The history behind lime disease is a bit...conspiratorial...
My side hustle are stylish metal lined hats I sell on eBay.
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Vercingetorix
··Spam RiskIt all makes absolute sense when you realize the RAND corporation invented a time machine in 1953.
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Professor
·I know all about that bridge btw...you can mug cigs there. Mug means mosquito in Dutch or Flemish also, too. And cig just means cigarette (slang is snake in... Flemish
"Faggot" is a bundle of sticks. My niece was reading something in the dictionary and crying asked me why her second grade classmate had called her a bundle of sticks. I doubt he knew what the word meant either.
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Dsloan
·They are currently hiding in my coneflowers while they dry their wings.
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pennsyl936
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They are a source of protein for the plethora of animals that eat them. One being the Cicada Killer which is in turn a pollinator. Some people even eat them; supposedly taste like shrimp.
Of course, but some insect are pollinators, some break down decaying matter- etc. just curious what the Secede does.
They are a source of protein for the plethora of animals that eat them. One being the Cicada Killer which is in turn a pollinator. Some people even eat them; supposedly taste like shrimp.
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JwRosenthal
·First one up in my yard- was chilly last night so surprised to see them
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Canuck
·I’ve never seen or heard a cicada where I live (Alberta, Canada), but apparently we do have them here. There are numerous species of them, but the “Brood X” isn’t one of them. Ours are smaller species. Learn something every day.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerI was watching the birds in my yard plucking the pupils right off the surface- it was an all you can eat buffet! The next 6 weeks is gonna suck
I'm sure it's annoying with the sound and the sheer volume of them. Personally, nothing I like more than hearing them buzz in the summer months, sitting on the back deck with a beer. We don't tend to have the numbers seen in this specific circumstance, so for me they are much more tolerable I guess.
I recall being in a location in Australia once (Dubbo, NSW) where the sound of them was deafening...
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Dan S
·They were awful in 1979. I'll never forget.
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JwRosenthal
·I'm sure it's annoying with the sound and the sheer volume of them. Personally, nothing I like more than hearing them buzz in the summer months, sitting on the back deck with a beer. We don't tend to have the numbers seen in this specific circumstance, so for me they are much more tolerable I guess.
I recall being in a location in Australia once (Dubbo, NSW) where the sound of them was deafening...
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BlackTalon
··This Space for RentWhat, you want the gunshots to be closer? 😁
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerWell, living in a fairly densely populated street-car suburb (still in the city but an early planned community), I will happily take the Cicadas over the sound of lawnmowers, leaf blowers, table saws, screaming children, ambulances, distant gunshots and car alarms.
I hear you. I would take them over the sound of bulldozers, backhoes, and soil compactors (that at times shook the house so bad I couldn't actually work on watches), and those annoying beepers when they put the various equipment in reverse. That's is all I've heard each day for the last several months as they do the site preparation for a large subdivision that used to be an open field that backed onto my property.
As an added bonus, everything outside is covered in a thick layer of dust from the construction - they are supposed to lay some asphalt next week, so hopefully that will cut down on the dust, but the noise will carry on as they start putting in foundations, and then building out the first 170 homes in phase 1...
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JwRosenthal
·I hear you. I would take them over the sound of bulldozers, backhoes, and soil compactors (that at times shook the house so bad I couldn't actually work on watches), and those annoying beepers when they put the various equipment in reverse. That's is all I've heard each day for the last several months as they do the site preparation for a large subdivision that used to be an open field that backed onto my property.
As an added bonus, everything outside is covered in a thick layer of dust from the construction - they are supposed to lay some asphalt next week, so hopefully that will cut down on the dust, but the noise will carry on as they start putting in foundations, and then building out the first 170 homes in phase 1...
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Syzygy
·Interesting little experiment watching for the emergence to begin on the north side of the house. Two days after the south side started, now I'm surrounded! Finding little shell casings on the tires of our cars now, and the trunk of the oak tree across the street is absolutely carpeted with them. The birds are in all-you-can-eat-buffet mode, and even the squirrels are taking a seat at the table!
Oddly enough, they haven't started their singing yet...but that will change soon I'm sure with the rising temperatures.
Oddly enough, they haven't started their singing yet...but that will change soon I'm sure with the rising temperatures.
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BlackTalon
··This Space for Rentyeah, 80 - 90 degF starting tomorrow and going through the weekend. They will be loving it.
