Sustainability Fair

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Everyone,

It's a bit late to announce it, but we're getting packed up for two
tables at the Sustainability Fair at the North Grenville Municipal
Centre: Aleta is doing a table about Ticks and their diseases, promoting
the idea of providing tick-fatal lining for mouse nests, and Doug Scott
& I will be doing the Fragile Inheritance table, with poems and
specimens about the difference between native & invasive Phragmites.

Edible food and electric vehicles will be on offer by others,

fred.
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---------Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad ------------
Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/
6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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[rmb...@istar.ca]

Tick fatal lining for mouse nests...when you get back and have time,
please tell us more about this.

Rose-Marie

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[e.g. g]

Wd like to hear more from Aleta on this.

If it's what I've been trying past 2 seasons

(offering wool that was soaked in permethrin juice, in weather-sheltered mini-stations)...

...I'd like to believe what I'm noticing is true: possibly fewer #s of ticks in the limited area I did the required intense coverage --- but I haven't carefully documented #s, nor have I the scientific control area to compare

...I'd like to think it's possibly reducing proportion that are carrying disease: in this area the % is v high, and the ticks I sent before to Geneticks for the ($$$) test all tested positive for Lyme, but last year's tested free of diseases --- but my sample size was nanosmall, and the claimed % for local tick population was never 100% positive anyway.

A frustrating limiting factor to this solution is that without going through the $$$$$$ certification to use spray pesticides, I'm limited in how concentrated a permethrin liquid product I'm allowed to get from the Feed'n'Seed = limited to a product less effective that used in the studies; = limited to the small bottle high-profit-margin size.

Elizabeth G

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