Bugscrolling - what's buzzing/chewing/biting in your neighborhood?
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Looks like we're going to have a bad tick season here. We suburbanites never really saw a lot of tick activity in our yards, but they've invaded over the last few years.
We had a bumper crop of cottony maple scale last year and it's back again this year. We're getting the sticky sap spots all over the place now; I left my phone on my potting bench for less than an hour and it the screen got all speckled. The top of the fence is covered in sap; your hand sticks to it if you rest it on the top rail. This joy will be followed by black sooty mold on all the plants under the silver maples that the scale lives on. Oh joy.
Mosquitos are already here, too. I had one drill me in the neck and I got a huge red blotch. Little bastards.
On the positive side, I'm seeing lots of bees!
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Ticks bring disease. I'm sorry.
We have garden variety flies in the kitchen.
It could be the maid who bags and double bags when needed all of the garbage and hauls all of it in push carts to the dumpsters a mile away quit unexpectedly last week.
Good help is hard to find.
I just found a newborn (and I mean probably born about yesterday) garden lizard hiding in a blanket on the porch.
So cute!
️'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik
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Ticks bring disease. I'm sorry.
We have garden variety flies in the kitchen.
It could be the maid who bags and double bags when needed all of the garbage and hauls all of it in push carts to the dumpsters a mile away quit unexpectedly last week.
Good help is hard to find.
I just found a newborn (and I mean probably born about yesterday) garden lizard hiding in a blanket on the porch.
So cute!
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Did you actually rid your body of it? My poor sister got it and never could get rid of it.
I love the garden lizards and frogs. Hearing the frogs under my floor is something I could live without, though.
There are a few mosquitoes in the house. The doors have to left open when possible or the place would turn into an oven.
They swarm by the hundreds during mid-summer evenings. I had bites all over me for months last summer. I hope I can move before it happens again.
We have black snakes. They're harmless. Actually, they're beneficial. I haven't been able to take a picture of one because by the time you get your phone, they're long gone.
'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik
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Don't see many insects here. Mosquitoes in a wet year. If I see ants or a spider, it is an event. A few butterflies show up. A fly got in the place last year.
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Did you actually rid your body of it? My poor sister got it and never could get rid of it.
I love the garden lizards and frogs. Hearing the frogs under my floor is something I could live without, though.
There are a few mosquitoes in the house. The doors have to left open when possible or the place would turn into an oven.
They swarm by the hundreds during mid-summer evenings. I had bites all over me for months last summer. I hope I can move before it happens again.
We have black snakes. They're harmless. Actually, they're beneficial. I haven't been able to take a picture of one because by the time you get your phone, they're long gone.
Did you actually rid your body of it? My poor sister got it and never could get rid of it.
It's been seven years and haven't had any problems. I recognized what it was pretty early on and got antibiotics pronto. I also have a pretty hardy immune system. The blood tests they did to confirm Lyme showed a very robust immune reponse. I know it hits some people really hard but thankfully I don't seem to be one of them.
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