Ticks and Mites

a tick is a butt digger so consumer

No, they would not.

no

dog tick

Ouch! Put a cup of bleach in with the water in your bathtub and soak in the water for 20 minutes.

If you follow the above advice, you will likely have a reaction from over-chlorinated water. As for the tick, either buy a tick remover at a sporting goods store or pharmacy or remove it by grasping it just at skin level and pull it off. Don't worry if the head is left in, just sanitize it and it will work its way out in a day or two.

Ticks generally have a three stage life cycle based on three blood meals. Born as Larval with 6 legs they need a blood meal to molt into Nymphs, then another blood meal to become Adults. Ticks are drawn to carbon dioxide and use it as target to find mammals. Often you will find a concentration of ticks along the side of the roads due to the exhaust fumes from cars (carbon dioxide among them).

a red tick is a type of coon dog

No, ticks mouth-parts go underneath your skin but not their egg laying parts. The nymphs (baby ticks) hatch and seek a small animal such as a lizard or mouse as a host. Occasionally, the nymph will find an unlucky human and feed on him instead.

Not to people. Plants yes.

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Agriculture is the only industry that will hold people--and civilization--together because it produces food for all those people. Believing in the future of agriculture is believing in our own existence in the future, and the understanding and knowledge that we can work towards a better future and hopefully a better Earth. A better Earth, however, can only come about with further improved agricultural practices that sequester carbon (or create carbon sinks), and not be a primary carbon source--a primary source of the Greenhouse Gas Effect that plagues our planet right now--that has been blamed for much of this Global Warming trouble going on. A future in agriculture depends on a wider range of sustainable and holistic-management methods that include no-till cropping, year-round grazing, leaning more towards grass-fed beef and less conventional grain-fed beef, and conservation of wildlife habitat and wetlands.

Much of the existence of agriculture today more and more relies on the next generation, the "young farmers" as they are called, as well as those who want to "get away from it all" and become farmers themselves. The majority of today's farmers are over 55 years of age, and much less are under 30. In order to believe in the future of agriculture we need to encourage more young people to step away from the easy living of city life and go back to their roots to start helping producing food for a global population.

Learning to enjoy hard work is another issue at hand. More and more and more people are becoming more lazier and don't want to break out a sweat fixing fence or working out in the sun cutting hay. They would rather sit around with a beer in their hand than be working their butts off every day to make a living. In order to believe in a future of agriculture we have to learn and teach others that "hard work" shouldn't be a bad word: it should be something to be proud of, something that notes integrity, honesty and independence in an individual or a community. Without those who know how to work hard, agriculture would become increasingly more like a factory (in a literal sense) than what it really is today.

A future in agriculture is heavily dependent on its consumers. It is primarily consumer's demands that drives agriculture and drives what producers should grow and what cannot due to market availability. Consumers, in a farm-to-plate sense, are all those people--you and me included--that need to eat. Agriculture is ever increasingly pressured to produce more food for a growing population with limited land, capital and supplies. Urban developments are taking over farmland, and yet consumers still have a never-ending hunger for food. Agriculture must not only become sustainable and more "green," but find a way to produce more food for increasingly more people. The problem with this is that most urbanites want agriculture and the image of agriculture to be as it was 100 years ago, not more industrialized as it is today.

Media and the image of agriculture is an even bigger issue if we are to believe in the future of agriculture. People from cities must understand in some way, shape or form that agriculture cannot produce the amount of food it does if they want it to go backwards in time, and not forwards like with technology and electronics and medicinal practices. People have this notion that farmers are those who work out in the fields with their stereotypical straw hats and overalls working the fields like they did in the early 1900's. They see this organic-labelled food or farm-fresh produce and immediately think that it was the farmer that picked all of this by hand to give to hundreds of people. These scenarios simply are not the case. A 500 acre field cannot be picked by one single farmer in the short period of time that consumers want that particular product to buy from the farmer's market or their local grocery shelves. Produce they purchase are picked by often the latest advancement in farm machinery that are equipped with GPS, fuel-saving technology and efficient equipment designed to pick as much produce as possible without causing damage or adding and unnecessary waste from other plant matter.

People want food that is "chemical-free" or "hormone-free" and yet never realize that even the most "naturally-grown" or "organic" produce still contains hormones and chemicals within the meat, fruits or vegetables but in their natural forms. Beef from growing steers, even if they were not implanted with a "growth hormone" implant, still have some level of growth hormone in the meat. Plants naturally contain chemicals that could produce toxins if in elevated forms that would be harmful to our health (and even still will if too much is eaten), even if they were organically grown. To believe in a future of agriculture is to educate ourselves more about the science of plants and animals and less about what seems to be.

Many reasons are out there to believe in the future of agriculture, but the most important ones are sustainability, the next generation, hard work, the consumer, the view of agriculture through the media and its consumers, and the real science behind it all. If we cannot understand or master most--if not all--of these things, then the future of agriculture and its existence may well be questionable.

Well, I'd say June - Mid July

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A Varroa Mite can lead to CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) because of the diseases which are passed through pathogens whilst it's blood is being sucked out by the Varroa Mite.

little black spots under the scales

Red velvet mites feed on insects that eat fugi

...tick...tick...tick... was created on 1970-01-09.

1. you may not know what the liquid is for eg. a strong acid could burn or damage your eyesight or skin. also never touch a liquid if you don't know what it is

2. If you know what the liquid is and it is hot take care

3. if at school always tell a teacher first

No, make sure if you have to pull off get the head or the tick will keep digging into your skin.