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Posted: Wed Jul 30th, 2008 04:09 pm |
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Gnats as we call them are really a group that contains many members. What we really are talking about are Fruit Flies. Amazingly, these creatures a hugely related to mammals and humans......genetically. They are used in tremendous amounts of genetic research that relate to almost any phase of human medicine. They are also one of our most feared fall nuisances. My document gives you much information on them as well as some neat ideas of how to deal with them.
Coming next in time for fall.........our friend and MOST FEARED creature by some, the mouse.
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| Corn Nugget, Your information is great. Thanks so much for it. You have spent a great deal of time researching. Good job. I'm reading and printing all. Last edited on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 10:23 pm by pineknot
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Posted: Tue Jul 29th, 2008 10:12 pm |
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| Gnats next as that season is coming up.
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Word to the wise.... don't read this forum while you are eating lunch!LOL!! 
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Posted: Tue Jul 29th, 2008 04:58 pm |
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Deer Flies, and of course, Horse Flies.......
Deer Flies attack the upper most parts of their target where as the Horse Fly prefers lower extremities. They really do not pierce the skin and suck your blood. Believe it or not, the male flies are pollinators where as again, the female is the biter, imagine that. They actually slice an X spot in your skin and sup up the blood pool. I found some interesting and maybe "far out" ideas on reducing their annoyance done by some researchers that may work. The document below really does not address the Horse Fly but in both creatures worlds, they prefer blue. Interesting that flies can see color.
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Posted: Tue Jul 29th, 2008 03:52 pm |
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Chiggers.......
I learned that when the red bump and itch begins, the critter has already left the building, so to speak. They do not embed in the skin. They inject a cell destroying enzyme and feast on the cellular material as a larvae, drop off and become a non annoying mite to humans. The story is contained in my document.
Next will be deer flies.
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| I've learned that if I ignore a bite it goes away almost immediately. Scratching it makes it worse and last long. And ammonia is a GREAT de-itcher.
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Farmer wrote: chs71 wrote: I'm afraid to ask: why do mosquitoes bite my husband and not me? Could it be I've built up immunity? I don't really feel them very much.
If you live here long enough, eventually they are biting in the same old holes. So, you just don't feel them anymore. Of course there could be another reason. It's been established that the female mosquito does the biting. If you consider one female going after another female, and females as a whole understanding each other,(which males never can)... is there any particular "time of the month" when the mosquitos tend to go after your husband instead of you? No, :-) just any old time will do. I think 4thekids might be right & it's because I stopped scratching them. Then again, sometimes I am taking allergy meds. Right after we were first married I took him down to the Blackwater bridge one evening and they bit him so badly he jumped in the water just to get relief. I really tried not to laugh. Of course, in lower Dorchester the mosquitoes do sometimes come in a black cloud sounding like a small airplane.
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chs71 wrote: I'm afraid to ask: why do mosquitoes bite my husband and not me? Could it be I've built up immunity? I don't really feel them very much.
If you live here long enough, eventually they are biting in the same old holes. So, you just don't feel them anymore. Of course there could be another reason. It's been established that the female mosquito does the biting. If you consider one female going after another female, and females as a whole understanding each other,(which males never can)... is there any particular "time of the month" when the mosquitos tend to go after your husband instead of you?
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chs71 wrote: I'm afraid to ask: why do mosquitoes bite my husband and not me? Could it be I've built up immunity? I don't really feel them very much.
I believe that you can build up an immunity to their bites, if you just let them bite.
If you are taking an antihistamine it may also help but I'm not shore about the antihistamine.
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I'm afraid to ask: why do mosquitoes bite my husband and not me? Could it be I've built up immunity? I don't really feel them very much.
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Corn Nugget wrote: Chiggers coming monday...........Deer flies after that.
Hope the info. is helpful and interesting.
You know all during my childhood I heard about chiggers. What is a chigger anyway? Is it an insect or a sore spot from being bitten by one?
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Chiggers coming monday...........Deer flies after that.
Hope the info. is helpful and interesting.
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 01:00 am |
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Check this out
http://www.epestsupply.com/fly_control.htm
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Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 05:17 pm |
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For you Honey Bee'sters here is what I have digested for you.
In summary,
The Colony Collapse Disorder, the name given to basically any colony collapse, has really NO specific reason. There appears to be many contributing factors and many coincidental factors but none being consistent factors. In my opinion, stress and reduced immune systems seem to be the main foundation for other causative issues such as Nosema, the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus or Deformed Wing Virus. There seems to be an association of hive collapse at times with the feeding of High Fructose Corn Syrup from Genetically Modified corn crops and reduced health from Nicotine chemistry insecticides…..but no one specific conclusion. It just may be that as they are not native to this country, they have run their course but this does not explain the CCD in countries where they are native. Weather……maybe. It remains a mystery.
My article is long but follows for those interested.
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This might be helpful
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Corn Nugget wrote: Any other "bugs" or "pests" anyone want me to discuss?
Absolutely, how about chiggers. what exactly is their purpose besides "getting under your skin" and irritating you.
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Corn Nugget wrote: Oh I can work on that. The information comes tomorrow. I thought you were going to ask about jert.
How about Deer flies. Nasty little fast fliers they are.
Saved 3 dragon flys today. They were stuck in a top window. Picked them up and away they go out the lower window.
What is jert???
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| Oh I can work on that. The information comes tomorrow. I thought you were going to ask about jert. Last edited on Thu Jul 24th, 2008 12:38 am by Corn Nugget
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Corn Nugget wrote: Any other "bugs" or "pests" anyone want me to discuss?
THAT was very informative. Any progress on the honey bee killer?
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| Any other "bugs" or "pests" anyone want me to discuss?
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| Farmer, A good laugh on your post. You find the best.
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| I have invented a new bug spray for the mosquito, AKA the Dorchester Co. Air Force; it doesn't kill em, it puts them in the mood for love. That way you can swat 2 at a time.
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Posted: Sat Jul 19th, 2008 01:07 pm |
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Q: How fast can a mosquito fly?
A: An estimated 1 to 1.5 miles per hour.
Q: How far do certain mosquitoes fly
A: Salt marsh mosquitoes migrate 75 to 100 miles.
Q: How far away can a mosquito smell you, or a cow or another host?
A: 20 to 35 meters.
Q: Why does a film of oil on water kill mosquito larvae?
A: Because the oil clogs up the snorkel that the larvae use to breathe.
Mosquitoes don't see very well, but they zoom in like a heat-seeking missile. In the spherical arrangement of their compound eyes, blind spots separate each eye from the next one. As a result, they can't see you until they are 30 feet (10 meters) away. Even then, they have trouble distinguishing you from any object of similar size and shape: tree stump, 55-gallon drum, etc. When they are 10 feet (3 meters) away they use extremely sensitive thermal receptors on the tip of their antennae to locate blood near the surface of the skin. The range of these receptors increases threefold when the humidity is high.
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Farmer wrote: Corn Nugget wrote: The average life span of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days. the male lives 10 to 20 days.
Oh great. that means i could be bitten by the same female mosquito up to a 100xs. once a day in a 3 months period. If I don't swat fast enough. That would be one happy female mossy. Blood thirsty healthy little thing.
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No mosquito's here...
Just massive quantities of semi automatic gunfire
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Dirty Jobs: Mosquito Control
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/mosquito.htm#
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| The average life span of a mosquito after it lands on me is about 2 seconds. Last edited on Sat Jul 19th, 2008 12:38 am by shadow
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Corn Nugget wrote: The average life span of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days. the male lives 10 to 20 days. Yep. Another species where for the male, life ain't fair.
A: By sight (they observe movement); (mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide and lactic acid, among other chemicals). In laymen's terms, if outdoors, don't move and while not moving, don't be near a cow.
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Corn Nugget wrote
Another "natural" form of control for ticks is the Guineafowl. They consume mass quantities of ticks.[citation needed] Just 2 birds can clear 2 acres in a single year.
Long story short, control your deer, kill your mice and get a couple Guinea hens and they will clean up your yard or surrounding area in a pretty quick time. Once they finish, refer to foodnetwork.com for a Guinea recipe or Mr. Food @WBOC...........00000h, So good.
pineknot wrote
Had a few of those. Crazy little birds. Cleaned up ticks wonderfully. So I gave to a friend. When my son (he was 6 at the time) and I went to Trappe to deliver them one escaped in the car when we on Rt 50. Now that was a fun time.
Stupid bird thought it could get out of the car from the driver's window.
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The average life span of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days. the male lives 10 to 20 days.
Mosquitoes: lay up to 300 eggs at a time, fly across 150 miles in their lifetime, range from sea level to altitudes as high as 10,800 feet (3,600 meters), develop from egg to adulthood in 4 to 7 days
Q: How many species of mosquitoes are there?
A: About 2,700.
Q: What does a mosquito weigh?
A: About 2 to 2.5 milligrams (for an Aedes aegypti).
Q: How much blood does a female mosquito drink per, er, serving?
A: About 5-millionths of a liter (for an Aedes aegypti).
Q: How do mosquitoes find new hosts?
A: By sight (they observe movement); by detecting infra-red radiation emitted by warm bodies; and by chemical signals (mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide and lactic acid, among other chemicals).
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You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas. Biting activity increase by 500 times when there is a full moon. A mosquito's wings beat 500 times a second.
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
A mosquito can detect a moving target at 18 ft away.
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Ticks (The only benefit I can find to a tick, worldwide, is that it helps transport the eggs of the Botfly on its legs, to a mammal host and that is not much good of any sort.)
Tick is the common name for the small arachnids in superfamily Ixodoidea that, along with other mites, constitute the Acarina. Ticks are ectoparasites (external parasites), living by hematophagy on the blood of mammals, birds, and occasionally reptiles and amphibians. Ticks are important vectors of a number of diseases, including Lyme disease. According to Pliny the Elder, ticks are "the foulest and nastiest creatures that be."
Ticks are blood-feeding parasites that are often found in tall grass and shrubs where they will wait to attach to a passing host. Physical contact is the only method of transportation for ticks. Ticks do not jump or fly, although they may drop from their perch and fall onto a host. Some species actively stalk the host by foot.
Changes in temperature and day length are some of the factors signaling a tick to seek a host. Ticks can detect heat emitted or carbon dioxide respired from a nearby host. They will generally drop off the animal when full, but this may take several days. In some cases, ticks will live for some time on the blood of an animal. Ticks have a harpoon-like structure in their mouth area, known as a hypostome, that allows them to anchor themselves firmly in place while feeding. The hypostome has a series of barbs angled back, which is why they are so difficult to remove once they have penetrated a host. Ticks can be found in most wooded or forested areas throughout the world. They are especially common in areas where there are deer trails or horse paths.
Numerous studies have shown that abundance and distribution of deer ticks are correlated with deer densities. Deer population management must serve as the main tool in any long-term strategy to reduce human incidences of Lyme disease. A method of reducing deer tick (Ixodes scapularis/dammini) populations - Damminix - may be cited. It consists of biodegradable cardboard tubes stuffed with permethrin-treated cotton and works in the following way: Mice collect the cotton for lining their nests. The pesticide on the cotton kills any immature ticks that are feeding on the mice.
The parasitic Ichneumon wasp Ixodiphagus hookeri has long been investigated for its potential to control tick populations. It lays its eggs into ticks; the hatching wasps kill its host.
Another "natural" form of control for ticks is the Guineafowl. They consume mass quantities of ticks.[citation needed] Just 2 birds can clear 2 acres in a single year.
Long story short, control your deer, kill your mice and get a couple Guinea hens and they will clean up your yard or surrounding area in a pretty quick time. Once they finish, refer to foodnetwork.com for a Guinea recipe or Mr. Food @WBOC...........00000h, So good.
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| thanks for all this info .I always wondered why nothing was ever said about mosquitoes transmitting hiv!!! you guys rock!!!!
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Why is it that West Nile, Malaria and such can be transmitted?
These viruses, to some extend, have been identified and studied as far back as 2000BC. They were also associated with the mosquito being its vector (the host doing the transfer). The "virus bugs" are members of the Plasmodium genius.
A plasmodium is also the macroscopic form of the protist known as a slime mould.
The life cycle of Plasmodium is very complex. Sporozoites from the saliva of a biting female mosquito are transmitted to either the blood or the lymphatic system of the recipient. The sporozoites then migrate to the liver and invade hepatocytes. This latent or dormant stage of the Plasmodium sporozoite in the liver is called the hypnozoite.
In the mosquito's midgut, the gametocytes develop into gametes and fertilize each other, forming motile zygotes called ookinetes. The ookinetes penetrate and escape the midgut, then embed themselves onto the exterior of the gut membrane. Here they divide many times to produce large numbers of tiny elongated sporozoites. These sporozoites migrate to the salivary glands of the mosquito where they are injected into the blood of the next host the mosquito bites. The sporozoites move to the liver where they repeat the cycle.
Long story short, the virus thrives in its host, a bird, mammal or what ever, is picked up through the blood feeding of the mosquito, does its life cycle thing in the stomach of a mosquito(the vector), migrates back to the saliva organs of the mosquito, is injected back into a host, performs its sexual acts in the blood stream, then sets up housekeeping in the liver of the host, then waits in its host blood circulation for another vector to come along and make the cycle happen all over again. The aids virus is not a member of the plasmodium genius and as a result is digested by the mosquito.
(Someone did ask this on another thread)
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Just thinking about ticks makes me all CrEePy CrAwLy Geeeeew. We just pulled one off of our doggie last night that somehow managed to beat frontline on her back leg. I HATE a tick!! 
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| OK, you convinced me. I'm headed to the marsh right now to make my donation to the food chain. I'll pass on the tick deal though, doc had to use a hole punch to remove the last one.
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Why don't mosquitoes transmit HIV virus?
Studies with HIV clearly show that the virus responsible for the AIDS infection is regarded as food to the mosquito and is digested along with the blood meal.
Mosquitoes Do Not Ingest Enough HIV Particles to Transmit AIDS by Contamination
An AIDS-free individual would have to be bitten by 10 million mosquitoes that had begun feeding on an AIDS carrier to receive a single unit of HIV from contaminated mosquito mouthparts.Most people have heard that mosquitoes regurgitate saliva before they feed, but are unaware that the food canal and salivary canal are separate passageways in the mosquito. The mosquito's feeding apparatus is an extremely complicated structure that is totally unlike the crude single-bore syringe. Unlike a syringe, the mosquito delivers salivary fluid through one passage and draws blood up another. As a result, the food canal is not flushed out like a used needle, and blood flow is always unidirectional. The mechanics involved in mosquito feeding are totally unlike the mechanisms employed by the drug user's needles. In short, mosquitoes are not flying hypodermic needles and a mosquito that disgorges saliva into your body is not flushing out the remnants of its last blood meal.
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Mosquitos, while harmful when carrying disease are the major food sources for thousands of creatures. Mosquitos are what is considered a Keystone species, meaning that without them a specific part of almost all ecosystems would collapse and the result would be chaos... much like if you removed the keystone from an arch above your door, the whole frame would collapse.
You wouldnt just be sentencing mosquitos to death, but all creatures in an ecosystem would be effected right up to the top predators.... For example, male mosquitos feed only on nectar only the females consume a blood meal before laying thier eggs (they also feed on nectar) when they feed on the nectar, they help to pollinate many plants...take them away and those plants suffer and the population decreases, affecting any other creatures dependant upon the plants, then the creatures that feed on the plant creatures suffer because of the population decline in thier prey...etc etc it goes on and on. So many creatures rely heavily on mosquitos for thier food source, such as Bats, Frogs/Toads, Nighthawks, Whipoorwills, Dragonflies, Barn swallows, Tree swallows, Purple martins, Paraques, Spiders, Minnows and adult Fish of many species feed on the mosquito larvae in the water, and water bugs and tadpoles and dragonfly nymphs and all sorts of aquatic creatures or creatures in thier aquatic phase of life.Toxorhynchites(mosquito hawks) and predator crustaceans, nematodes, and fungi also feed on mosquitos. Also most mosquito larvae feed on microorganisms, but a few are predatory on other mosquito larvae. So they also help to control populations of thier prey.
Every living creature benefits another in some way all are dependant on one another for survival, every creature on this planet is beneficail in one way or another.
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