{"id":3555,"date":"2011-07-15T19:35:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T23:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2011-07-15T19:39:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T23:39:22","slug":"ticks-are-durable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/ticks-are-durable\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticks Are Durable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/IMG_6187.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/97906-2\/IMG_6187.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Smashed dog tick that I found on my leg after riding through the overgrown Seasonal Loops at River Bends.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This evening while riding through River Bends to look for specific areas in need of trail work I picked up two ticks on my legs. I found them both while driving and while I was able to flick the first one out the window, I dropped the second on the floor. I stopped to find where the second had landed, and after picking it up with a napkin I tried three times to crush it between my fingers, but each time failed. I eventually smashed it between the hard plastic console and a bike light housing, and after applying a good bit of force it finally snapped, crushed, and stopped moving. It&#8217;s amazing how well built ticks are.<\/p>\n<p>While I didn&#8217;t get a good look at the first one, a bit of research shows that this one is a <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/15489\">female <i>Dermacentor variabilis <\/i> or American Dog Tick<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dermacentor_variabilis\">Wikipedia<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening while riding through River Bends to look for specific areas in need of trail work I picked up two ticks on my legs.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/ticks-are-durable\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ticks Are Durable<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-outdoors","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}