Мы строим деревню / we are building ecovillage: дикая природа

Wildlife

ivanovishe 22.11.13 в 20:17

The fight of fight with fight.

Yanne 22.02.14 в 16:22

Y. Koval

Yanne 22.02.14 в 16:23

Nowadays it’s very difficult to meet actual wild nature and we live in not so far region to be able to tell about it. But nevertheless we have an experience of permanent interaction with some representatives of this amazing world. I’ll tell about it below.

Yanne 23.02.14 в 08:48

Of course it will be the narration not about hares, foxes and roe deer which are still survived in our hunting region, but about our little neighbors.

Yanne 23.02.14 в 09:17

So, our first guest is a mouse. We interact with it almost the whole year. I will not go into biological details but we meet there some different species of this animal, they all differ in size and colour, all of them have bead-eyes and are very cute. But I considered them to be cute only at the first time, up to the moment they took offence me when in winter 2012 they had chewed my favorite down-filled slipping bag and made a nest of it. Before this event our relationships was rosy. During the first wintering when I was living about two months in the cold banya entrance room, and from them more than one month I spent in loneliness, Musya (it is the collective name I gave to all mice which looked for the food in our shelter) was my faithful and mute company. We communicated a lot. At that very period a term “AntiMusya” appeared. It was a type of container where we hided all things that Musya could gnaw. Later when the offence became milder I started to be nice to mice again. Still they are God's creatures!

Yanne 23.02.14 в 10:10

In the spring and summer time we continued the relations with Musya - we elaborated strict discipline, which even turned into the reflex: everything that can be eaten and bitten should be in “AntiMusya”. Everything that can be the building material for the nest also should be there, or should be hung somewhere where mice could not climb. The discipline is a base of interaction with this part of wild nature. Had a meal - clear away everything after.

Yanne 23.02.14 в 10:41

I personally don’t want to use poison, entrapment or something like that. Mice lived here, are living and will live, they are an important part of local environment. That’s why extermination of them is silly and harmful labour. We should just organize and limit their activity, protect ourselves. But these questions are just about organization. Like they say it is a “paperwork”. Undoubtedly the keeping of natural mouse’s enemy, for example the cat, is an important step in the restriction of mice`s kingdom. But for the time present we decided that we will have all animals after we`ll finish the building of the house. So now our choice is the “AntiMusya” and the discipline.

Yanne 02.04.14 в 17:03

In 2013 we provided ourselves with ultrasonic scarer. They say, to make it efficacious the number of conditions should be done, which we can’t perform. Maybe more or less clear opinion about this matter will appear with time, now we’re just experimenting with it. The first experiments collapsed - the mice drag the food straight from beneath the scarer without any embarrassment at all.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 06:11

The second highlight of our program in order of importance and quantity of questions is, undoubtedly, a tick. These companions keep the company for us approximately from April to July.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 06:18

First of all these Arachnids are famous for their ability to transfer a lot of diseases, the most known of them are viral tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme borreliosis. Heh, that`s not quite a few. So, what to do? We have a lot of ticks in the season, you see, and the probability to catch a disease from them is quite high.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 06:27

I can share my thoughts concerning this question.

Yanne 23.02.14 в 10:42

Some theory about tick diseases. In our region are:

Yanne 23.02.14 в 10:47

1. Lyme borreliosis is quite widespread and sad because of its long-term effects (heart, joints and nervous system damage), which can appear after some weeks or even month after the bite, when people already forget about the tick.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 06:31

If the disease is diagnosed timely it can be easy cured, so it is necessary to keep in mind the first symptom - the appearance of a red spot around the place of the bite after 1-4 weeks after the infection. If the reddening appears earlier than after one week - it is the reaction on the bite, but not the sign of the infection.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 06:50

2. Viral tick-borne encephalitis is very troublesome hardly curable disease, as many other viral infections. The disease proceeds with a cerebral and spinal medulla affections and can cause death.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 09:21

3. Tick-borne rickettsiosis of North Asia. In general the disease is benign, but to have it probably is unpleasant matter. It is produced by one type of rickettsiae.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 09:25

4. Other diseases happen more infrequent than those, which are mentioned above. But they also are curable.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 09:27

Thus, we can understand, that the most dangerous disease in this list is viral tick-borne encephalitis.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 09:28

It is justly said that the only method of protection against tick-borne encephalitis is the special inoculation made in advance, or if there was no inoculation, then again the special immunoglobulin, which must be inserted in the course of the first week after the bite was done.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 10:02

Thus probably in our case the most wise decision was to make an inoculation. But I personally have decided that will not inoculate myself, just don’t want. Although I recommend it to everybody, it is quite effective.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 10:31

It should be mentioned that the boosted “Iodantipirin” is considered by many specialists to be a profanation and doesn`t protect from the virus.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 10:42

For my own I’ve chosen the method of more attentive attitude to ticks. I try not to bring the deal up the bite at all.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 10:46

How it is possible: first of all you need to understand some biological peculiarities of the tick well:

Yanne 04.04.14 в 10:48

In the first place a tick doesn’t jump from above, it’s sitting quite low in the grass and trapping his victim. When the victim passes near the tick jumps on it. Most often the tick can be found on legs. Then he starts to climb up along the clothes or skin searching for the most tasty and soft place to stick. It is the simplest thing to detect and intercept it at this stage. Since we practically don’t have gnats there I don’t wear a lot of clothes and on the contrary wear trunks only, so it is even simpler to detect ticks. During the period when ticks just appeared and you haven’t yet get accustomed to them, organs of sense begin become keener to ticks bit by bit and it occurs according the chain, which I as a joke call:

Yanne 04.04.14 в 11:25

"Ticks syndrome"

Yanne 04.04.14 в 10:49

The first stage is called “paranoiac” - you fell like all your body is covered with ticks. Everything is itching, scratching, every body sensation is estimated as tick’s presence. There is one real tick out of a hundred scratches. After a time this stage is over.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 13:07

The second stage is “amateur”. The life becomes easier: about five out of ten scratches bring to the catch of the tick. In other words about half of feelings are interpreted correctly.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 13:20

The third stage is “pro”. The organs of sense are tuned quite precisely: almost all “false” scratches disappear. The scheme becomes very simple: to fell the climbing tick - to catch - to throw out. That’s all.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 13:25

The fourth stage is called “sage”. He can wake up at night, feeling that the tick is crawling along the body. He can get it, throw out from the tent or flatten with nails and then continue to sleep calmly. This is a real perceptibility.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 13:29

The perceptibility upgrade occurs very soon if you have a desire to develop it and a short time later the life with ticks becomes quite ordinary one. You can simply avoid bites.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 13:39

In the second place you should understand that ticks are not hares and they don’t jump through the fields. All the time they sit at the one place. And if at the one place you gathered all ticks, then they can’t appear there again. In order to decrease the probability to meet a tick in spring you should use one and the same path and forbear from going through virgin lands and bushes.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 13:55

In the third place if the tick has already bitten you, you need to move it away as soon as possible. The less time will pass after the moment of bite till the moment of moving away the better for you. There is no need to drown it in oil and kerosene, cauterize it or do something else. Just throw it away without ceremonies. The simplest way is to do this with a help of pincers. The place of the bite should be smeared with antiseptic. If the head tears off don’t worry, the tick doesn’t need it anymore. It is not dangerous for you, it is like a splinter, and all tick’s microbes are in its intestines.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 14:08

That's just the way ticks deals are.

Yanne 04.04.14 в 10:50

We have got there snakes too. People also ask about them very often.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 13:31

Thank God we don’t live in that very region where it brings great discomfort. But snakes are found. They like to catch some sunshine, to slug on rocks and in general they are quite calm. The only thing is that you should not disturb them, because they can be frightened and bite you.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 15:15

There are three types of snakes in our area: two poisonous - viper and copperhead snake and one non-poisonous - racer.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 15:18

The main problem after the poisonous snake’s bite (I speak about the kinds which we have there and they are not very dangerous) is a wrong first aid treatment. 80% of all complications and problems are happened because of some wrong actions and prejudices on this stage.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 15:35

The most important thing is to place the bitten person in the way that the place of the bite was below the heart, provide with the rest, give a great amount of water, covered with something and guarantee the immobility of the bitten limb. That’s all. Further can be done if possible: you can make a sterile dressing for the place of the bite, give allergy relief medicines, and provide the transportation to the medical facility.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 15:45

But the most important is as far as possible to avoid bites. To be attentive.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 15:21

I started to write about the wild nature and get the hand-book about the first aid treatment. But these are the questions, the answers to which should be familiar to everyone.

Yanne 05.04.14 в 15:30