<br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/14 Gregory Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div><div>Thanks Dave. You have looked closely at an engorged tick, ja?</div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep. I live on acreage in east Tennessee and we've got dogs.</div><div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"><div> My intuition tells me the mosquito would not bite the tick, but as I think it over carefully I can't figure out why the heck not. A mosquito is programmed to look for a warm beast, and the blood in a tick would be cool, however I can arrange to warm the tick to mammalian temperatures. Mosquitoes can penetrate thicker skin than is used to wrap a tick.</div>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wikipedia says they look for CO2 and octenol--in addition to optical recognition. And ticks may have thin skin--especially when engorged--but it's <i>very</i> tough compared to mammal skin.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Dave</div><div><br></div></div>