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drhoz in wtf_nature

Ix come from the land Down-Under

Feb 12, 2008 17:12

Ha! We Australians mock your feeble American ticks. Rocky Mountain spotted fever? Tularemia? Our ticks don't need no steenking microbes to kill you dead, they can do it all by themselves.

Ladies & Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you...

Ixodes holocyclus, the Paralysis Tick

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illness, toxic, parasite, australia, arthropod, arachnid, mites

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noodlebug24 February 12 2008, 08:24:13 UTC

so, I will never be going to Australia..

drhoz February 12 2008, 08:25:42 UTC

no no no, by all means come. we can use the extra bait.

67 February 12 2008, 08:27:16 UTC

LMAO.

noodlebug24 February 12 2008, 08:32:53 UTC

hahaha

drhoz February 12 2008, 09:10:49 UTC

nosyparker February 12 2008, 08:56:20 UTC

If you stick to the cities, the only wildlife you'll run into is hipsters. Dirty, dirty hipsters, with stinky Converses and butt cracks a-showin'. Also, girls who are orange.

drhoz February 12 2008, 09:10:24 UTC

*coff coff..* redbacks, funnelweb spiders in your swimming pool, bull-ants, sharks (such as that one in the Coogee Aquarium that coughed up an arm), magpies, etc...

gemfyre February 12 2008, 09:18:21 UTC

Awww magpies. <3

*starts composing a post about my beloved Gymnorhina tibicen*

moonvoice February 12 2008, 13:31:11 UTC

Hoorah for the magpie that is not a magpie!

*does the happy Artamidae dance*

violent_rabbit February 12 2008, 09:30:44 UTC

Blue ringed octopus, tapain, box jellyfish, rabid possums-

nosyparker February 12 2008, 10:52:24 UTC

Oh, I'm sorry, I meant Melbourne -- you know, a real city. ;P

Seriously, I've been surprised -- I've lived here for three years, and the most I've had to deal with is pantry moths. Haven't even had to deal with any scary insects/snakes/etc. up in the mountains. *knock on wood*

And funnily enough, I've been swooped by rosellas, never magpies! But it wasn't scary -- just cute. Little fat birds over my head going "Chee CHEE!" Hahahaha.

drhoz February 12 2008, 11:16:27 UTC

heh - clearly you're naturalised - 3 years here and you're already bad-mouthing Sydney

nosyparker February 12 2008, 11:19:37 UTC

It was a visa requirement. ;)

I actually really like Sydney! Although I encountered far more homicidally angry cab drivers there than funnel webs. And after having to spend altogether too much time with said cabbies -- I'll take the funnel webs!

one4theroad February 12 2008, 15:52:51 UTC

i would PAY to be swooped by a rosella :)

nosyparker February 12 2008, 15:58:05 UTC

They really are gorgeous, aren't they? I adore them. I see them a lot around our neighborhood.

There's also a lovely wildlife reserve about an hour's drive out of the city where, if you take a bag of birdseed and hold some in your outstretched hands, you will end up absolutely covered in parrots. It's awesome!

one4theroad February 12 2008, 16:07:38 UTC

awww, i'm so jealous!
how often do you see black cockatoos?

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