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| Yerboogieman |
Posted - May 13 2010 : 09:29:29 AM
We had a blue jay nest on top of out bay window so we put a camera above it.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/birdflu-tv |
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| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Jul 01 2010 : 11:09:52 PM
As for the Japanese bees, I think this group of words is appropriate.
FUCK. THAT. SHIT. |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Jun 27 2010 : 11:38:44 PM
Yes that's the same video I saw. The Hornets bite the heads off the bees. |
| Aaron Cake |
Posted - Jun 27 2010 : 2:36:09 PM
There was a show on Discovery a few months ago that had some amazing footage of huge Japanese hornets attacking a bee hive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fTrSOFyfxs
After taking a long walk in the woods yesterday morning, I removed a tick from my right arm yesterday afternoon. |
| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Jun 27 2010 : 12:45:49 PM
Ouch. Bees, larva, arm, inside? Blah. I've heard some bad things about these bugs lately. Not sure if it is coincidence or not. |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Jun 25 2010 : 10:56:45 PM
Yuk!
Did you know that 30 Hornets can wipe out an entire hive of 30000 Bees? |
| Aaron Cake |
Posted - Jun 25 2010 : 2:14:01 PM
Hell yeah! The reason I mentioned a bot fly is because I came home from a cruise when I was 12, and found a bot fly larva in my arm a few weeks later. I didn't know what it was at first then I remembered something I saw on TLC about human parasites. I put tape over the breathing hole for a while and was then able to squeeze it out and grab the head with a safety pin. I think I still have the little guy in a jar somewhere. |
| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Jun 25 2010 : 12:47:43 PM
Did anybody else look up 'botfly' in Google Images? |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 09:24:19 AM
Ah I see. Maybe in my case the mother bird was weary of the dogs, that's why she stayed on the fence while the baby hopped around. |
| Aaron Cake |
Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 09:19:12 AM
Apparently it is a myth that birds will abandon their young if touched by a person ( http://www.wildbirdcarecentre.org/english/rescuer.html ). They don't have a good enough sense of smell to tell. What causes issues is when the nest is disturbed/destroyed. Or when there is too much intrusive contact by another animal.
The robins seemed to deal with the nest moving to the balcony just fine. After only about 20 minutes, they were back feeding both babies. Now the healthy baby has basically left the nest and is hopping around the ground, guarded by the parents. This is expected behaviour. I have not checked on the injured one in a day, though it seemed much better on Tuesday.
As for the mites, it seems that birds have a much higher body temperature then humans, so the mites die off after a few hours. After a few hours I stopped itching. Better then a bot fly. |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 01:19:55 AM
Mites? I've seen people put cream over the wound and that suffocates the grub/mite, and when they come out for air you grab them. Man, this is totally out of tune for this kind of website. |
| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 12:18:48 AM
Yikes. I take it you got the tiny mites on/in your skin? Take a cigarette or match over them and they'll back out from the heat.
How did you try to get the mother back? That seems kind of hard. |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 10:29:37 AM
I have heard that sometimes the parents won't return if they see or smell too much human or foreign contact with their babies. They feel their babies have been alienated and they fly away and never come back, or maybe just to observe. It has happened here before. We desperately tried to get the mother to come back and help her kid but I think she flew away and the baby died. |
| Aaron Cake |
Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 09:40:31 AM
Yesterday, the robin nest in the eves near my rear balcony fell down. I found out when I got home from work. It took a few minutes to round up the two babies, place the nest back, and toss the babies (not literally, they would try to fly which makes aiming hard) back in the nest. While the parents were quite unhappy about me picking up their children, they settled down after about an hour and started caring for them again.
This morning, just before work, the nest fell again. This time, one baby was obviously very healthy but the other was injured (it's never a good sign when they are on their back and twitching...). I put the nest in the corner of the balcony so it can't fall again and returned the babies while being dive-bombed by the parents. It looks like the healthy one is about ready to fly today or tomorrow, but the injured one probably won't survive.
Oh, and wild baby birds seem to be covered in tiny mites. That also like to burrow into human skin. And itch. |
| Aaron Cake |
Posted - May 24 2010 : 09:50:32 AM
But the stick poking is the best part! You can't buy that kind of fun. Unless you buy a hooker and then kill her, of course. |
| Yerboogieman |
Posted - May 22 2010 : 5:30:30 PM
Some people are so weird. Little kids scare me. |
