The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[bruceha2000]

I love it here too. But i need to wear gloves more.

That is an understatement given how you are suffering from it now!!

We've only got brown recluse here.

Interesting since what I found just now looking to see what poisonous spiders we have in Vermont (kinda remembering we have BR) says the BR is unlikely to be able to survive the winter cold. Apparently we have Northern Black Widows in the southern part of the state, though rare. I've never seen one though I did see Southern BWs growing up just south of L.A.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I think it's more our latitude. There are a lot of things that stop at the badlands.
The saddest for me is that we don't have cardinals

You can visit ours! Did you see the picture of the yellow cardinal?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yeah, we have those nasty spiders too. Luckily there are a lot of birds around to eat them.

 

[ronott1]

That is an understatement given how you are suffering from it now!!


Interesting since what I found just now looking to see what poisonous spiders we have in Vermont (kinda remembering we have BR) says the BR is unlikely to be able to survive the winter cold. Apparently we have Northern Black Widows in the southern part of the state, though rare. I've never seen one though I did see Southern BWs growing up just south of L.A.

I would be skeptical of the claim that you do not have brown recluse there. We were told that too...until people kept being bitten by them. When we lived up north, an Electrical vault was found that had thousands of them in it.

I think they forget the part of the name that says recluse, LOL! If you turn a light on, they hide.

 

[bruceha2000]

Perhaps, but you don't get anywhere near as cold as we do. For the same reason it is statically impossible for a dog or cat that never leaves Vermont to get heart worm. The mosquito phase can't live below (IIRC 57°F) and it dies if it gets that "cold" even one day in a 45 day period.

I suppose a BR would survive if it managed to travel in on something in warmer weather and get into a basement before winter.

 

[ronott1]

Perhaps, but you don't get anywhere near as cold as we do. For the same reason it is statically impossible for a dog or cat that never leaves Vermont to get heart worm. The mosquito phase can't live below (IIRC 57°F) and it dies if it gets that "cold" even one day in a 45 day period.

I suppose a BR would survive if it managed to travel in on something in warmer weather and get into a basement before winter.

We were told that the Brown recluse would not over winter here but they do. They like to hide in vaults and etc.

Asian cockroaches do the same thing here

 

[drumstick diva]

I hate bugs and spiders and rodents and slithery things. I do like little toads. I usually have to chase them all over the yard, so I can pet them and show I mean no harm. They usually piss on me anyway.

 

[ronott1]

I hate bugs and spiders and rodents and slithery things. I do like little toads. I usually have to chase them all over the yard, so I can pet them and show I mean no harm. They usually piss on me anyway.

I am with you on not liking the creepy crawlies!

 

[JaeG]

I'm not big on bugs either. My DD can pick up anything to feed to the chickens including roaches . My DS is hilariously phobic about bugs!

 

[Treerooted]

I think it's more our latitude. There are a lot of things that stop at the badlands.
The saddest for me is that we don't have cardinals

I had to go investigating , looks like it's both. I guess I just forgot - I've been tree planting in Alberta and BC and we have to cover all the wilderness health and safety stuff. (Though to be honest all I remember from that was the black bear and grizzly bear discussion )

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