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Vanilla
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Take a pic for us and post it.
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Michelle M
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I'd love to do that. Check this out:
Tick sweep: modification of the tick drag-flag method for sampling nymphs of the deer tick (Acari: Ixodidae).
* Carroll JF, * Schmidtmann ET.
USDA-ARS-LPSI, Livestock Insects Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Maryland 20705.
We describe a version of the standard tick drag-flag modified for use in close-growing and tangled vegetation, as well as under ornamental shrubbery and fallen branches.
Two major features of the sweep are: (1) it allows the user to remain upright with the flag parallel to the ground, thus sampling effectively beneath low and fallen branches and around shrubs, as well as capturing host-seeking ticks in advance of the operator; and (2) the use of a flannel rubberized-laminate fabric (crib sheet) for the flag that is snag-proof and highly durable in dense and thorny vegetation.
In simultaneous 100-m samples, the sweep was as effective as the 1-m standard tick drag for capturing nymphs of the deer tick, Ixodes dammini Spielman, Clifford, Piesman & Corwin, where understory vegetation was sparse, but was twice as effective in dense vegetation, capturing significantly more I. dammini nymphs.
The sweep also captured nymphs of the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say); rabbit tick, Haemaphysalis leporispalustris (Packard); and lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.).
PMID: 1495058 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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shazdancer
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Ticks often climb up on stalks of grass or other plants and stick out their forelegs, waiting for something to brush by so they can hitch a ride and have a meal.
The cloth has a nap to it to better snag the ticks. It is white so you can see them better.
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Geneal
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So you could probably use a light colored flannel sheet??
I am not sure I want to do that.
I'd have to be in the woods/grass to get a good "sample".
In addition to the ticks, I may run across a little poisonous snake or two.
I am thinking of getting a piece of dry ice and leaving that out over night in the wooded
Part of my property. Then going out in the morning with some tweezers and a jar of alcohol.
Hugs,
Geneal
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