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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Damned nationalist insects!

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Oh, the literal bugs.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 days ago

You can just call them Americans.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can we find a way for ticks to stop existing?

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

We need to breed a race of Super Possums, although Possums are pretty super already.

[–] HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago (3 children)

careful out there hosers - lyme disease will fuk you up

it will take a long time to diagnose, and during that time you will be miserable, and the longer it takes for diagnosis, the more likely it will be a permanent, chronic infection

[–] GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

As someone who grew up in a place that has had Lyme since the 1980s (VA) we really need to improve access to testing and treatment here in Ontario given our climate now is similar to Virginia’s back then.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

If you find a tick on your self Peel the thing of and find a local lab and send it out to get tested for Lyme. This way you can tell with in the week and start treatment aspa.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hardly any lyme in the upper midwest, it's mostly on the east coast, idk about the west, I know they've that other lone star whatever disease too.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Most Canadians live in the east. In either case, I wouldn't be the one to risk not checking.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm below Ontario which is the most populous province last I heard.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

upper midwest

Then you should know this doesn't sit below the most populous part of Ontario.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

And make the ticks pay for it!

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 13 points 5 days ago

The word "tick" is very important here.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

You can't fight crime with a macaroni duck.

[–] ASaltPepper@lemmy.one 11 points 5 days ago

Found a tick on my dog last year after going to the normal park, good reminder to give your pet their tick meds.

RELEASE THE GUINEA FOWL

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

They're not sending their best

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not terribly far from the border, and the ticks are always bad up here in spring to early summer, until it dries out. Not the smaller deer ticks that spread lyme though.

When the ticks go away, the deer flies come, and they are worse. Constantly landing on the top of your head for no other reason than they can. There is no respite from them outside.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Nah the deer flies have a reason..... they try to hide in your hair and have a snack of blood.

[–] argarath@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Y'know, I have never been fond of wearing hats, but I would wear them every single second if I had deer flies nearby

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

It's not a very good reason, very few try to actually bite your head. I mean house flies are the worse for lack of reason to harrass us, but the deer flies here are super super aggressive in the peak summer months, like constant mobbing, few bites, just fucking with you for the most part.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

What about the MAGA invasion?