Matt
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Matt
@BullMoose75
Lawyer now. Biotech previously. Badgers/Packers/Brewers/Kraken fan. Simpsons quote enthusiast. Star Wars nut. Master of Guineafowl.
Red Area of Blue Washington Katılım Mart 2009
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If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.
The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.


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Isn’t Coke Zero just Diet Coke branded for men?
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
As Coke Zero gets bigger, and threatens to dethrone Diet Coke as the most important diet soda property in the Coca-Cola extended universe, the feud between Diet Coke fans and Coke Zero drinkers is getting pretty fizzy. on.wsj.com/4wKhvI5
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@BaseballQuotes1 Couldn't find a picture, but I remember these two standing near first together and thinking the same thing.

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@_TheBlueTorch Which is more ignorant, the reply or the account applauding the ignorant reply?
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Finally, something dumber than non-alcoholic beer.
Yippy Pouches@yippypouches
The best pouch for the course. It's not close.
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A man went to dinner in Europe last night.
Paid $11 for a full meal.
$6 for a glass of wine that would cost $18 in America.
The waiter didn’t need a 25% tip to survive.
The restaurant paid him a living wage.
He took public transit home.
Clean. On time. $2.
No car payment. No insurance bill. No $4 gas.
He didn’t win the lottery.
He didn’t get a raise.
He just lives in a country that decided basic life shouldn’t cost everything you have.
Then he remembered he was American.
And flew home to his $2,300 rent and $500 health insurance premium.
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@dabearsblog It's only "athletes can have political opinions" for one side. Remember that.
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Justin Trudeau is the only man alive that could make banging Katy Perry look gay
6ixBuzzTV@6ixbuzztv
Katy Perry calls former PM Justin Trudeau “the love of my life”
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@BrewersBabes Yeah. Kinda weird to do when arguably our best player is also not American.
Not sure it is racist, though.
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As a lifelong, avid @Giants fan, I am beyond disappointed & flat out angry @JaxsonDart has chosen to align himself with an unhinged, racist, criminal, lunatic destroying our democracy.
How is this going to go over with his teammates?
This is a terrible look for the org.
Acyn@Acyn
Jaxson Dart: I'm grateful, I'm honored, I'm pleasured to introduce the 45th and 47th president of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump.
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@Strandjunker I planned to go to the FIFA World Cup to 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽this year. But cancelled everything after 77 million retards in the🇺🇸elected this Pedo POS owned by🇷🇺🇮🇱.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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