FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆
New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!
If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.
The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.
@FivePointsVids How are you not shocked about this? He pretty much said "Fuck this team, I'm gone," right as the season was over. Why the fuck do we root for this team...
LMAO GIANTS. NUKE EVERYTHING. NOW.
FIRE DABOLL.
FIRE SCHOEN.
FIRE MCATAMNEY INTO THE MOUNTAINS.
FIRE MARA INTO A TRASH CAN.
NO MERCY. DO IT.
They let the Broncos escape. How fucking hilarious.
GET OUT THE RYE BREAD AND MUSTARD GRANDMA, IT IS GRAND SALAMI TIME! ⚾
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How Eugenio Suárez' go-ahead grand slam sounded on the Mariners Radio Network with Rick Rizzs on the call.