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Rising tick populations in the America have reached possible record numbers, with some people reporting seeing more this spring than ever before. The numbers have prompted worry, as ticks carry a number of scary pathogens.
Wildlife biologist Scott Williams of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station told Outside magazine that one part of his state along the eastern bank of the Connecticut River is spectacularly infested.
"You get absolutely astronomical abundance here-maybe 1,000 ticks an acre," said Williams.
Further west in Ohio, tick populations are booming as well.
"The crazy wet, cool early spring weather had all of the ticks bunched up," Glen Needham, a tick specialist at Ohio State University, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "When the warm weather arrived, it was a case of ticks on steroids. People have been reporting they'd never seen this many ticks."
Needham said tick populations have been on the rise in the Buckeye state for the past decade.
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DirkGently
(12,151 posts)brewens
(13,620 posts)my best to be helpful. After they came out of the RV after removing it, I told her to keep a close eye on the area where the tick had been in case it layed eggs under her skin and they began to hatch out.
That creeped her out big time. My girlfriend found out and didn't think that was very funny!
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)They lay their eggs in the ground. They bite, and secrete a small amount of their saliva, which then infects the host, while they are feeding on the host's blood.
brewens
(13,620 posts)sarge43
(28,945 posts)Can't even walk around in the yard without collecting a few.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)This couldn't possibly,remotely,be even fleetingly considered to MAYBE be a result of the climate change that doesn't exist.Must be magic.
mopinko
(70,215 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)...but they are a hell of a lot dumber than chickens.
Nimajneb Nilknarf
(319 posts)As far as I know, the only things that are dumber than chickens are fishes.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Chickens tend to stay out of the road. Guinea hens tend to go toward the road.
Therefore guinea hens are dumber.
Oh, and as far as your previous comment, I know a whole lot of teabaggers who are dumber than chickens.
Nimajneb Nilknarf
(319 posts)Modern fossil-fuel powered vehicles go a lot faster than horses.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)I had a small flock of Guineas for a couple of years and they would come when called - I know, it sounds odd. Chickens can't be taught to do anything that I've ever seen. But as to the subject, back when we did have Guineas our tick population (as measured by how many we found on ourselves) dropped to zero. Good useful birds, and not just as 'watch dogs' either.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)Where Lyme disease was named after.