u/Commercial_Will_4112

As this sub clearly shows, we are encountering an unusual amount of ticks this year. As last year was a mast year for oak trees and a boom in mouse population throughout the region, next year's tick population may be even worse.

I'm in Massachusetts forests as a trail maintenance volunteer everyday and have found exactly three ticks this year. One actually fell from overhead and landed on my phone screen lol.

Something is aggressively controlling the tick population in my local region. We have two dogs who are in our fenced in woodlot back yard hunting small critters all day. There is a large white tail deer population very active on the other side of the fence, the deer often bed down directly against it. We've found a combined 1 tick on our two dogs. These and one other tick were all found in April.

To test my theory, I've followed active deer trails through waist high grass for hours and spent time where they bed down, seeing deer use these spaces every day without fail. I have found zero ticks with and without big spray.

There is a very active red tailed hawk population with fledglings in the area, but they can't kill all the mice.

Anyone else, or am I just lucky to be in the Tick Bermuda Triangle?

This video is from them flying a over Raytheon facility lol

Checks are an antiquated, slow, fraud prone form of payment that should be dead. Since the Amish can't use credit card readers, they should be the only people allowed to cut checks.

Everyone else should legally get the fuck out of the checkout line. Police should bag groceries in every town to enforce the ban. Life in prison for first offense.

Humans are hands down the worst invasive species in the history of the earth. Domestic cats got nothing on us. People who say there's no such thing as invasive species are ignorant to one of the most catastrophic human impacts in the history of our species.

Setting aside direct human caused extinctions (dodo bird), a large part of the exponential increase in extinctions is from the very recent phenomenon of invasive species (american chestnut blight).

This phenenom unleashed a Pandora's box of mass genocide committed between millions of novel species interacting in the blink of an eye.

Early humans were kept in check by species that evolved with homonids for hundreds of thousands of years. Human migration created the world's first large scale invasive species, and developed the phenomenon itself.

Migration of non-human animals produces relativity little invaise species as they have coevolved in their locations for thousands of years toward mutualism.

The development of rapid continental and intercontinental travel has created hundreds of millions of novel species interactions, from microbes to megafauna, in an evolutionary nanosecond, developing the phenomenon of invasive species on an exponential rate.

Before this development, the likelihood of a vine native to the jungles of southeast Asia ending up on the east cost of the USA is near 0. Now it's the bane of our yards.

When people say no species are invasive, the best response is to educate them. The next best is to tell them to fuck off.