Tick

Ranking The Kingdom

Twelve episodes in and we're buggin' out with the Tick.

No, this isn't an episode devoted to your favorite weirdo super hero, this time we're covering an arachnid that's caused nothing but trouble the whole world over. Lyme disease in humans, paralyzing bats, tormenting gophers! Is there no line that the Tick will refuse to cross? In this week's episode we tackle our blood sucking foes and see where they fall on an arbitrary scale of 4 to 100. I hope you're ready to get creepy with some crawlies on our twelfth edition of Ranking the Kingdom.

NOTE: If you're a new listener you might do well to go to rankingthekingdom.wordpress.com/about in order to familiarize yourself with the ranking system. The show is fairly straightforward though, so you'll probably be alright.

Episode Guide:

(0:00 - 4:27) - Intro: Info, Mini-sodes, Usual.

(4:37 - 9:45) - Unsorted Facts: Cartography, Ixodidae, Argasidae.

(9:55 - 20:15) - Instinct/ Evolution: Sensing, Saliva, Non-symbiosis.

(20:25 - 30:20) - Offense/ Defense: Disease, Sucking, Shell.

(30:30 - 35:47) - Society/ Resourcefulness: Nymph, Legs, Lonesome.

(35:57 - 43:50) - Legacy/ Future: Lyme, Avoidance, Numbers.

(44:02 - 1:00:12) - The Ranking: Wherein quite a few animals/ things are discussed.

Pictures:

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/tick.htm

http://www.urbandognyc.com/ticks/five-questions-for-dr-moore-flea-and-tick-season/

http://lymediseasecentralmass.com/ticks-in-massachusetts-will-do-anything-but-jump-to-get-their-next-blood-meal/

https://www.wisconsin.edu/ehs/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2014/08/CDC_TickSizeComparison.jpg

https://www.britannica.com/animal/tick

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/tick.htm

Sources:

Thank you to Silent Partner for the intro/ transition/ outro music, “Cloud Patterns”

And thank you to the following sources for all of the free information:

http://www.cdc.gov/ticks/life_cycle_and_hosts.html (Tick Life Cycle)

http://www.cvbd.org/en/occurrence-maps/world-map/ (Much More Interesting Map)

http://www.futurity.org/like-tiny-predators-ticks-hunt-wary-prey/ (Small Animals Wary of Ticks)

https://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/resource000528_rep1451.pdf (More Tick Life Cycle)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3071302/ (Tick Blood Draining)

http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/co-evolution/mutualistic/co-evolution_mutualistic.html (Symbiotic Relationships)

https://books.google.com/books/about/Phenomenology_ontopoiesis_retrieving_geo.html?id=vDXdNAEACAAJ (Larry David Tick Story, Page 336)

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/lyme-disease/about-lyme/ (Lyme Disease Basics)

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-disease-symptom-checklist/ (Lyme Disease Checklist)

http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/pccommonticks.htm (Common Ticks)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2785505/ (Role of Saliva in Tick Feeding)

https://www.britannica.com/list/the-most-numerous-organisms-in-the-world (Most Populous Organisms)

https://www.trianglepest.com/learning-center/ticks/american-dog-ticks (American Dog Tick)

http://www.cdc.gov/ticks/geographic_distribution.html (Ticks Across the Country)

http://www.orkin.com/other/ticks/hard-soft-ticks-difference/ (Hard and Soft Tick Differences)

https://www.tolgabathospital.org/hospital_tick.htm (Paralysis Tick and Flying Foxes)

Thank you as well to the following musicians for their royalty free music:

Porches and Universes By Puddle of Infinity

I Am Running with Temporary Success from a Monstrous Vacuum by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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