types of beetles in BC?

[Maurice420]

The Pine Beetle is taking our air from us. Anyone nice it's getting harder to breathe lately?

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Maurice420

The Pine Beetle is taking our air from us.

Sure you don't have that backwards?

[mapleleaf4ever]

He could mean the fact that the Pine Beetle is devastating British Columbia's forests?

[Maurice420]

Air is taking the Pine Beetle from us? Naw. If anyone has driven to Canyon or the Coq lately, you'd notice exactly the effect these bastards are having.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Maurice420

Air is taking the Pine Beetle from us? Naw. If anyone has driven to Canyon or the Coq lately, you'd notice exactly the effect these bastards are having.

You read that completely wrong.

We are taking air from the pine beetles.

You srsly think that their CO2 production is anywhere near ours?

[Maurice420]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

You srsly think that their CO2 production is anywhere near ours?

No, I srsly think that they are killing all the trees, and trees give us oxygen. I take it you've never heard of them. Srsly, take a roadtrip through Kamloops one of these days. Have a gander at the hillside. It looks like my uncle's head these days.

[Mangle]

^^^ Yeah, I just had a wedding in Cache Creek. Once you get about half way down the Canyon, it's like a death zone. It goes from green to brown to bald. It's scary.

[project.one]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Ticks aren't dangerous, unless they carry Lyme's disease. Best is to go to a nearby ER and ask if they've had recurrences of Lyme's disease from the area you were when you found it. Honestly, I've had a woodtick before and didn't need any kind of treatment for it, they just took the tick out and I was okay.

Still, I dont want to have to dig a tick out of my body!
I just want to know!

[ebbomega]

My point is that most of the stuff you need to worry about is a regional thing, not a species thing. Ask a doctor local to the area you found it in.

[Mangle]

"Do they know how many eggs it laid in your brain?"

[Goat]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

My point is that most of the stuff you need to worry about is a regional thing, not a species thing. Ask a doctor local to the area you found it in.

blah. not entirely relevant the to conversation at hand.

Pine beatles are destroying the softwood lumber industry and are well on the way to making the pine tree extinct. They eat the nutrient layer between the bark and the core of a tree, preventing nutrients from being passed upwards. The tree is profitable 2-3 years after it is effectively dead, abliet with a blue stain that's harder to market. (the bugs natural antifreeze, why it can survive the winter)
During this period it turns yellow, red, and eventually black, though it's dead all the same. It's now an extremely combustible fuel source, being given it's own fuel designation due to it's extreme volatility and unpredictablity. You think Kamloops and Barrier were bad fires? The amount of timber that's affectively red and dead is greater then 2.5 times the size of vancouver island. Drive anywhere outside of Vancouver and you can't help but notice it.
It doesn't produce oxygen. It doesn't absorb the 1000+ liters of water it requires every yearto grow. Co2 doesn't get scrubbed. Grassland becomes marsh and swamp , affecting weather patterns and everything that follows.Taxes go up from the cost of managing the environment, replanting, fire supression. Hillsides, breeding streams are devasted by fire and the soil erosion issues that follow; beautiful country destroyed, effectively kicking the housing (and again, lumber) market in the nuts.

In short. All this [i]will[i] have an impact on you in vancouver.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Goat

blah. not entirely relevant the to conversation at hand.

Sorry, which conversation is off topic here?

[Goat]

He was asking about types, your bit about the pine beetle sparked something I felt needed to be said.
It's not a jibe at you, the pine beetle issue is a bigger issue without a positive conclusion that a lot of people don't think about.

[impure]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

they just took the tick out and I was okay.

this has me worried enough.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Goat

He was asking about types, your bit about the pine beetle sparked something I felt needed to be said.
It's not a jibe at you, the pine beetle issue is a bigger issue without a positive conclusion that a lot of people don't think about.

The thing you quoted and then said it wasn't on-topic was part of a thread related to the original post - guy was paranoid about ticks and related diseases. I just thought that was a bit interesting considering you then continued on the whole pine-beetle tangent that got started on.

'sall good.