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#16
11th June 2008, 10:33 AM
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AHA! I KNEW it!! Talent will out...  Well, hey, the world needs people who "speak up/out!" Now, granted, there ARE ways... I'd probably get fired too...sometimes my foot gets in the way of my mouth!!   Love and Hugs Shi 
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#17
20th June 2008, 03:56 PM
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LOL!, Phil, you are a funny cat, oops, bird!
Littlebird emailed this to me a while back, and i had gotten sunburned a few days earlier, so i was itching ANYWAYS, and after this, i couldnt STOP itching! I thought about ALL those times i didnt spray a bird until he was upstairs already, and just SWORE i had mites! I asked how to get rid of mites, and practically bought all the bird mite/lice spray, got lice shampoo, shampooed the carpets, used powder, WASHED everything, and what do you know, no more itching! Must have had NOTHING to do with my sunburn going away!!  Actually, littlebird gave me an AWESOME remedy for sunburns, something we ALL have for our pijjies, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR! Took it RIGHT away! Now i keep bird mite spray in my car, just in case.. 
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#18
20th June 2008, 04:41 PM
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Hi "X",
Yes indeed, our beloved "Raw ACV", cut 50/50 with plain cool Water, is a wonderful old remedy for soothing Sunburn, rashes, and other skin discomforts. Probably the ACV would also discourage 'mites'...! I am confident, that if one is up on their B Vitamines, that this also discourages 'mites' from electing one for a meal. Love! Phil l v
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#19
20th June 2008, 05:58 PM
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 My sister had gone through her kid hair looking for nits and found one on her daughter. After that she had changed all the bedding in the house and cleaned everything. Still, her own head was very itchy. I would over and went though her hair very carefully with one of those little nit combs she bought at the drug store. Not a nit in sight but rather than tell her so, I pretended to find some. Got it, I said and then I pretended to find another. Itching stopped immediately and she thanked me over and over. I have never told a soul, until this day, that I found no nits in my sister's hair that day. I did rescue her from another miserable night's sleep. I was a good sister.
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#21
20th June 2008, 11:51 PM
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[quote=pdpbison;293988]Lol...
Cool Storey Charis... If Dinosaurs had 'mites', would they have been Dyno-Mites?[/QUOTE] LOL...a writer AND a comedian!! Hugs AND (in this case) SCRITCHES....ROFL Shi
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#22
21st June 2008, 12:31 AM
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Well, you know, the so-called 'Pigeon Fly, the 'Hippoboscidae', being among the few remaining Flying Lice from very ancient times, where, all very nearly all true Lice species long ago elected to become Apterygial, to eschew their Wings and fly no more...even as had 'Ants' who are actually Apterygial Wasps.
The Hippoboscidae has likely not changed since the time of the Dinosaurs...or earlier... Given, that the modern 'Birds' are the surviving/extant Coelurosaurs/Theropods, or, that the Coelurosaurids/Theropods were ( 'earlier' versions of ) 'Birds', were 'Feathered', even if most were not fliers... The 'Hippoboscidae' of to-day, may very well have pestered the ancientmost 'Birds' also...or, may have been pestering them continuously, for a couple two or three hundred million years now..! The little 'grunt' a Pigeon makes, the 'grunt' and the instant 'Biting Preen' or Leg Scratch, which a Pigeon will do when a 'Hip' bites him...is probably unchanged from an similar grunt or small cry and reaction of the various Coelurosaurs... My guess anyway...! There are only a few true Flying Lice remaining on Earth, and I forget now,but, one is specific to Pigeons...one, to Camels, and a couple others, I forget what they are specific to. 'Mites' are also very very ancient, and are of course very small, true Spiders. They eschewed the making of Webs, to favor free-roving manners of forrage, and, some, became adapted climbing onto larger animals to bite them for food, and laying in wait between times, instead of eating detritis or forraging or hunting for tiny foods or prey. Many are so small they are regarded as being below the threshold at which an unaided Human eye can even see them. Phil l v
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#23
23rd June 2008, 07:45 PM
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haha nice article Phil was a good read.
what a nut case i would have loved to hear what she said to the operator when she called 911 "theres mites in my house and they are refusing to leave" i would have laughed and told her to have a shower and hung up the fone. you would think a normal human would just have a look on the internet, and with all that rent money she didnt pay go and buy the appropriate stuff and solve the problem. but no lets go call 911 and pretend we are in the set of E.T.
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#24
28th June 2008, 09:21 AM
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Phil's comments and 'newspaper article' are absolutely hilarious! Well deserved too, because it seems to me that the 'victim' was just trying to get out of paying the rent money she owed, and it just became another excuse to give pigeons a bad reputation. It reminds me of something that happened to us, only it didn't involve mites but woodworm.
Five years ago our tenants, who had neglected to adequately maintain the floorboards of their luxury apartment, got some unwelcome houseguests, which they tried to use as an excuse to get out of their rent contract without paying. One of them said he'd been told by his doctor he had been bitten by woodworm, and might have larvae under his skin. Before my mother or I could reply, my daughter said, 'Hang on, you're confusing me. Did they mistake you for a lump of wood or for a lady woodworm?' As you can imagine, the case collapsed. Teresa.
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#25
28th June 2008, 01:52 PM
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Question about feather mites:
Can they be seen with a jeweler's loup? How long do they stay on a molted feather, IF they stay? Many thanks... Shi
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#26
28th June 2008, 10:23 PM
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I am not in the front-of-the-class on this, but...I think that the Feather eating ones are Lice - or are figurative 'Lice' - and not 'mites', and, they stay on the Feathers whether the Feather is discarded or not. These are elongate bodied and very tiny, or that the lager adults are at the fringe of what is visible to the naked eye if one has very good detail close-up vision. Follicle Mites inhabit the Feather Follicles and can cause a loss of Feathers or interfere with Feather growth or re-growth and are of course a different Creature. Human Beings have symbotic Animals which live in our Eye Lash follicles, but I forget what these are or how we are supposed to come by them. I do not think they are 'Mites', but some sort of Nematode probably...I will have to check and report back on that when I find out... Dogs and Cats typically have 'Ear' Ites which can cause stiny Ear canals...if you have ever stuck your nise into a Dog's or Cat's ear and taken a whiff, it can smell pretty bad. These also cause itchy ears and discomfort and tenderness for the Dog or Cat and they appreciate being rid of them. These are easily suffocated ( the 'mites' that is ) by dripping Olive Oil onto various places inside the Ear cavity so it distributes itself around by whicking. Phil l v Last edited by pdpbison; 28th June 2008 at 10:27 PM.
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