Hello all, I tried to post this message yesterday with a PDF attachment, but I did not know that there is a 10 Kb size limit. Anyone interested in these articles can contact me and I will send them to you personally.
The message below appeared today on an entomology listserver. Good discussion on bird ticks and "tick paralysis". Some of the images are a bit repulsive, but nature isn't always pretty. Anyhow, I've attached a PDF file that deals with dispersal of Lyme-disease carrying ticks by migratory birds in Canada. Birds are important in carrying ticks and other parasites and the diseases they vector to new geographical locations. A similar study conducted in MN, WI, and MI was published in 1996 in the Journal of Medical Entomology, but I was unable to download the article. I can scan it and send it as a PDF to anyone interested. Good Birding, Pat >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 131.104.96.75 >Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:30:03 -0500 >Reply-To: Entomology Discussion List <entom...@listserv.uoguelph.ca> Sender: Entomology Discussion List <entom...@listserv.uoguelph.ca> From: RESEARCH Hilton Pond <resea...@hiltonpond.org> >Subject: Bird Ticks & Tick Paralysis >To: entom...@listserv.uoguelph.ca >X-NDUS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NDUS-MailScanner: Found to be clean >X-NDUS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.001, > required 5, autolearn=disabled, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) >X-NDUS-MailScanner-From: owner-entom...@listserv.uoguelph.ca > >There does indeed seem to be an epidemic of Bird Ticks this winter in the Carolina Piedmont, and it's right on schedule. > >For some super-close-up photos and intriguing information about these pesky ectoparasites, please visit the 15-21 January 2006 installment of "This Week at Hilton Pond," keeping in mind that some images from nature can be a little disturbing. The photo essay is at >http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek060115.html > >As always we include a list of birds banded during the period, >including a partially albino American Goldfinch whose mug shot we took. These are also suggestions for how to deal with a tick-infested bird. > >Happy Nature Watching! > >BILL >-- > >RESEARCH PROGRAM >c/o BILL HILTON JR. Executive Director >Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History >1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA >resea...@hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845 > >Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net): >Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History at http://www.hiltonpond.org "Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" at http://www.rubythroat.org > >********** > Patrick Beauzay Department of Entomology 217 Hultz Hall, Bolley Drive North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58105 701-231-9491 patrick.beau...@ndsu.nodak.edu http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/entomology/ http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/beauzay/tigerbeetles/index.htm
