Wood is not a good thing in a mulch. As wood decomposes it requires a great deal of nitrogen in order to break down and when you apply a mulch that is heavy in wood chips to your flower beds, landscape or other garden areas it will actually pull valuable nitrogen from the soil.e keep chickens and use dust free wood chips from the local timber yard for their bedding in the coops. we clean then out once a fortnight and put the waste in a compost heap made from old pallets 8 foot X 4 foot. We also put grass clippings, garden weeds, crushed egg shells, banana skins, tea bags onto the pile.
Tick paralysis. Tick paralysis is the only tick-borne disease that is not caused by an infectious organism. The illness is caused by a neurotoxin produced in the tick's salivary gland. After prolonged attachment, the engorged tick transmits the toxin to its host. The incidence of tick paralysis is unknown.
Only deer ticks can carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. They can also carry the germs that cause babesiosis and human granulocytic anaplasmosis. Young deer ticks, called nymphs, are brown and the size of poppy seeds. Adult female deer ticks are red and black, while males are black.f you find a tick attached to your skin, remove the tick with tweezers (see tick removal instructions on page 6), and watch for the symptoms of Lyme disease. In 60-80% of cases the first symptom is a rash, known as erythema migrans, that: 1  Occurs at or near the site of the tick bite.