Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for June 24, 2021

So that’s how RJ keeps the weight off.

Really. His blood sugar level must be astronomical. Fred will be leaping around like a crazed monkey on moonshine.

Verne let RJ “Win” this one ;-)

Is Verne getting jealous because Fred wants to neck with someone else?

Verne eats bark. How’s that going to make his blood taste?

He’s doing you a favor, RJ.

He is a cream filled donut burger.

Not feeling too good about the thought of a racoon croissan’wich.

In my experience, mosquitoes have a sweet…well, proboscis. They bite me less when I haven’t consumed much sugar lately.

The study was recently published in the Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine. A research team led by Dr. Alena Žákovská collected ticks from the suburban area of Ruda in Brno, Czech Republic. They tested 100 Ixodes ricinus ticks, or castor bean ticks, which are found mainly throughout Europe, for their preference to drops of each blood type — A, B, AB, and O — placed on a petri dish. They recorded which drop each tick gravitated toward after spending two minutes sitting on the dish.

Apparently, type A blood was the most appealing to a tick’s palate, attracting 36 percent of the ticks in the study. On the flip side, type B was the least popular, drawing in a mere 15 percent of the small parasitic animals.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/ticks-may-find-you-tastier-if-you-have-a-certain-blood-type#Rising-number-of-diseases-related-to-ticks

http://www.aaem.pl/Pilot-study-of-Ixodes-ricinus-ticks-preference-for-human-blood-groups-of-the-system,85167,0,2.html

Wood tick meth.