Personally, I consider any group of ticks an infestation.

At 01:19 PM 5/25/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Sagebrush:
>
>           Fascinating list. But now you are our official source for
>such information. So, how about:
>
>        (1) a group of gila monsters?
>
>        (2) a group of bats - ?colony?
>
>        (3) a group of ticks (of great concern to our colleagues
>                                in New Jersey)?
>
>        (4) a group of Angles, Jutes and Saxons?
>
>                (perhaps a confused "mass" that thinks archaeology
>                  should be in "Archaeology Departments" -
>                  - P.S. Ian Hodder is now a Professor of Anthropology
>                    in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropolgoy
>                    [one of 2] at Stanford University, California.)
>
>        (5) a migrating group of jellyfish? a stationary group?
>
>                        This could go on and on and on - and Mike
>                        Polk et al, you are now the official source
>                        for all such information. Thanks.
>
>
>                                        Bob Schuyler

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