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I really really miss my itouch. 80% of what I miss in the calendar ap. My life is so dis organized with out it



I'm a bit behind on up dating you all about what I have been up to. Been out to the field a couple of times. The first was to collect kissing bugs.It was a huge success, we caught 60 in one night.

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The second trip was yesterday were we trapped small mammals to test them for zoonotic diseases (diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans or vicsa vursa.


giving a "tick check" were we pull off any ticks we find and test them for things like lymes disease


A pack rat inside the sherman trap. we give the cotton to make a bed and seeds to eat until the animal is weighed, tagged, ear biopsied, and had a small amount of blood drawn. the they are released in the same place we caught them.


Cotton rat about to have it's blood drawn. We give then a touch of knock out gas so the don't feel the biopsy, so he's high as a kite.


We gave them electrolytes and sunflower seeds so that they could recover quickly from their ordeal.