Every year I see dry ice marketed for use by campers, and it’s certainly effective for keeping things cooler longer, but I never see anyone talk about the fact that it’s a tick magnet, to the point that a cooler containing dry ice, even fully closed, is the go-to lure used by field researchers who WANT to attract as many ticks as possible. Here are some tick traps in action:
The fact that people are told to take dry ice with them into the woods, and not told that this is a thing, feels kind of glaring to me???
This happens because dry ice is solid carbon dioxide, and the carbon dioxide in our breath is what ticks use to track us. Not just ticks, either; mosquitoes and other blood-feeding organisms also rely on it. I’ve never been camping myself, but I imagine if you do use dry ice, you should keep it away from where you intend to sit, eat or sleep.
The Dead Tree Series isn’t dead…it’s been only sleeping then over the Spring and Summer it reawakened when I found the spooky woods in Richmond Park. I thought I’d post these before Halloween (don’t worry it wont be a 16,000 word tome like the first Jurassic Jaunt..ouch!)! These gnarled twisty old trees are sandwiched between the eastern side of Isabella Plantation and the Coronation…
[ID: an illustration of animals, plants, and fungi, including a frog, snail, isopod, morel, chanterelle, inky cap, and turkey tail mushroom, in mostly brown, yellow, and green, against a dark brown background. End.]
More images from a biblical commentary with some not so obviously biblical additions. They can feel icky if you don’t care for bugs, but we couldn’t help laughing at (laughing with?) this bundled up, E.T.-like critter.
These images are from a recent donation of hundreds of religious themed engravings and illustrations. We have determined a subcollection of these is from the Kupfer-Bibel: in welcher die Physica sacra, oder beheiligte Naturwissenschafft derer in Heil. Augspurg & Ulm: Gedruckt bey Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735.
For Halloween week here’s a real “treat” of some creepy details from a 18th century publication that combines biblical commentary with depictions of flora and fauna of the natural world. The passage connecting these critters with the bible is Exodus VIII:16-20 which explains how though the people had been warned not to let the nourishing manna remain on the ground, “…they did not listen to Moses; some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul.”
These images are from a recent donation of hundreds of religious themed engravings and illustrations. We have determined a subcollection of these is from the Kupfer-Bibel: in welcher die Physica sacra, oder beheiligte Naturwissenschafft derer in Heil. Augspurg & Ulm: Gedruckt bey Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735.
I have not been active here in a long time. I had many things to do aside from contract work. Here is an illustration that I did at the end of 2020 for a card game titled Key of Ijzeria. The name of the card is Prying eye. I have been doing a couple of illustrations and it’s really fun.
Presenting “Creepy People,” my #inktober2017 project! I bought some ink the other day and was all ready to do more spooky B&W illustrations this year, but then I saw the #inkmonstergirls prompt list by @periwinkei and I got the idea to continue my marker portraits using their themes! I’m not sure if I’ll do these all October or just make these for a while and switch to doing something else in ink for the rest of the month. We’ll see. Follow me on Instagram @janmort3000 for daily updates all month long !!!!
