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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    I would have bet money you were born in Minneapolis or Duluth, or thereabouts.
    My dad's side of the family was from Iowa.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Helena View Post
    Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack


    Zebras have a bold black-and-white striped pattern on their body surface. Many functional hypotheses on the striped pattern of zebras were generated in scientific researches, such as camouflage, confusion of predators, signaling to conspecifics, thermoregulation, and avoidance of biting flies [1]. Among these hypotheses, several studies now indicate that preventing attack by biting flies is the function of zebra stripes. For example, Caro et al. [2] showed that the phylogenetic distribution of body stripes is associated with tabanid fly distributions at the species and subspecies level. Additionally, Egri et al. [3] experimentally showed that tabanids avoid landing on black-and-white surfaces, such as trays, boards, balls, and buckets. Moreover, Caro et al. [4] demonstrated that tabanids flies are far less likely to land on striped cloth coats than on black or white coats when placed on horses. In contrast, the other hypotheses such as camouflage, confusion of predators, social interaction, and heat management have not been supported by researchers [1, 5–9].

    Research further shows that biting flies eschew landing on white [10], striped [3, 11], and spotted surfaces [12]. Stripes narrower than a critical width (approximately 5 cm) and spots smaller than a threshold size (diameter approximately 10 cm) effectively prevent biting flies from landing and these surfaces attract fewer biting flies than white surfaces [3, 12].



    More at link: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ar...l.pone.0223447
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    Quote Originally Posted by ethereal View Post
    your rabid anti-fly agenda is apparent to all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    I wonder if camo patterns on clothes like fishing, hunting or any outdoors clothes, even tents, can be made to repel biting bugs by designing the pattern to do so. That would be very good.
    Do the bugs bother you while you're hiding in your neighbor's bushes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    I once read an article about nature and animal colors...
    I don't think coloring books count as articles.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    I dont like the way they look at me. Im scared of them
    And you should be. The cows are on to you.

    Okay, okay... I'm really done this time. Helena, I apologize... I couldn't help myself!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    My dad's side of the family was from Iowa.
    My dads side of the family lived in Iowa in the 1800's. They moved to TN and Arkansas in the late 1800's to bootleg and got into cotton farming and timber. In the mid 1900's they added cropdusting to the mix. Dead grandma was a blue blood from Luxemburgh so you can only imagine how that was lol. My grandad was a raging alcoholic ( but he hated drunks lol). Grandma was all about church. I'll never forget she was in charge of the communion. At their house the communion trays were on a shelf over a shelf he kept his whiskey bottles. They werent Catholic either. He never went to church and she never took a drink. They were Church of Christ. But it worked. Mixed signals came early in my ancestory.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    My dads side of the family lived in Iowa in the 1800's. They moved to TN and Arkansas in the late 1800's to bootleg and got into cotton farming and timber. In the mid 1900's they added cropdusting to the mix. Dead grandma was a blue blood from Luxemburgh so you can only imagine how that was lol. My grandad was a raging alcoholic ( but he hated drunks lol). Grandma was all about church. I'll never forget she was in charge of the communion. At their house the communion trays were on a shelf over a shelf he kept his whiskey bottles. They werent Catholic either. He never went to church and she never took a drink. They were Church of Christ. But it worked. Mixed signals came early in my ancestory.
    My dad's side came here when Prussia merged into Germany. My mothers side was here from the beginning of the European movement to save the stone age hangoners. They guided them into the first world.
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