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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S., Threatening Livestock

www.smithsonianmag.com

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An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S., Threatening Livestock

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Researchers documented three cows in Ohio killed by Asian longhorned ticks, which can lay up to 2,000 eggs without needing to mate
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  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    takes sip of coffee

    neat.

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    Marjorie Taylor Greene hears about an Asian tick invasion and says this justifies why TikTok should be banned.

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      Ya she wants to make sure she’s the biggest parasite in America

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      I mean it should be banned

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        How would you ban it?

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          Idk, do I really look like a deep state government official?

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        Why is it any worse than any other commercial social media company? Unless you mean they should all be banned.

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          I don’t like it. I’m not going for a consistent judgment, but a good one.

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            So your reason for banning TikTok is “I don’t like it?”

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              Yep

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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                Why should you be the arbiter of what gets banned?

                • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
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                  Am I?

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                  Because of their sweet username, duh

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    you cannot spray your way out of an infestation

    OK, so what other options are there?

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      Breed opossums and unleash them upon the local area

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        I’ve heard that opossums don’t actually eat that many ticks.

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          Okay, no opposums, no snakes on this convo branch.

          how about a shit ton of guinea fowl?

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            Lol I mean I’ll do anything to get rid of ticks. They freak me out.

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          That just means we need more opossums, and I fail to see the downside

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        Then we’ll have to breed a predator to care of the opossum problem …

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          Okay? I got this. How do we feel about snakes?

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      What about flamethrowers?

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      Welcome and praise our new tick overlords with a blood offering.

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      Popping!

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      Most likely, find their natural predators and diseases to control the ticks.

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    Wow. That is a crazy tick.

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      Enough of them can suck a cow dry of blood! Insane!

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        I thought you were joking. Then I read the article. Crazy!

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    A Tick of The Clones

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