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On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:16:06 -0400, Phisherman
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On Mon, 31 May 2010 08:01:21 -0500, "basilisk"
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Watch out for those ticks, they are out and about and
spreading disease.

I've spent the last ten days with Rocky Mountain Spotted
Tick Fever.
The best way I can describe it is; the worst flu you ever had
X5.

I managed to eat the first meal I had in over a week
yesterday, today I feel almost back to normal with the
exception of being very weak.

The cure is simple, a short course of doxycycline
antibiotics and time.

Important thing is to get ticks off as soon as possible
and if flu like symtoms develope, seek out treatment
as soon as possible. RMSTF becomes more unforgiving
as treatment is delayed and is sometimes fatal.

basilisk




I already got bitten three times. One was a tiny seed tick I removed
last Wednesday. The area inflamed 2-3X a mosquito bite and turned red
the following day, improving slowly with applications of neosporen.
The OFF! doesn't seem to keep them off very well--looking forward to
winter weather when I can do more woodworking without the bloody
suckers.

I thought the bugs would be far worse here in Alabama than they were
in
Vermont. Not at all. Other than ants (A few Sagans of sugar ants
come
in
each fall) we have no issues with them at all. I'm rarely if ever
bitten.
They do have a truck that comes around and sprays once a week.


Sprays what?

Dunno. A truck drives wound once a week with something that looks like
a
smudge pot on the back. It makes a very discernable sound so you know
its
schedule.

Any odor?

Yeah, but I don't remember it. We close the windows when we hear the
truck.

Always a good plan when trucks are spraying unknown substances!


And how about them Alabama Cockroaches?!

I've not seen one cockroach since I've been here. Not so much as a
cricket.
Spiders, yes.

Be afraid, be Very Afraid ...

Some are really bad (Brown Recluse and Black Widows are all around, so I'm
told). I just treat them all the same. If they don't get squished they
get
nuked. SWMBO *really* doesn't like spiders. Ants just **** her off.
Spiders
freak her out.


Yabut, what's killing the cockroaches. Those babies can survive global
thermo-nuclear war. ..

Dunno, maybe they prefer Democrats. ;-)