Maine moose survey finds record-high death rate from ticks
The ticks, also called moose ticks, are a worsening problem in the areas of the northern U.S. and southern Canada that moose call home.
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Be prepared: Spring means ticks
It didn’t happen this year, but it sure has in the past. While out checking my tapped maple trees I’ve returned with ticks crawling on me. Sometimes they were deer ticks, which happen to carry the Lyme agent, while others they were dog ticks. Neither is pleasant. During this year’s late-February and early-March sap runs the conditions were prime for…
Bill calls for DNR to sell bug spray to prevent Lyme disease
The tick-borne ailment has always lurked in the background in wooded northern Wisconsin, but now it’s on the rise across the rest of the state. The state DNR theorizes that ticks are multiplying faster than their natural predators.
Be tick smart in the Ohio outdoors
Something – a biting insect for sure – had marched down my forearm and punched in a string of tiny bites. I never even noticed the minor “attack” until, overnight, a reddish-purplish blob about two inches long raised up on the skin. It was not sore, painful, or itchy, and I felt no symptoms of distress. So I watched it…
Be wary of ticks in the deer woods this season
It is a little thing, easily ignored, overlooked, or forgotten, but potentially with big consequences – a bite from an infected tick. And while disease-bearing ticks can be a problem year-round, deer hunters should be especially wary. We spend long hours in the woods, deep off trails, often in heavy cover, and often with back and head propped again a…
Winter ticks taking a toll on moose calves in New England
(Photo by Bob Drieslein)CONCORD, N.H. — Moose calves are dying at unprecedented levels in New England, mostly because of the hordes of winter ticks – as many as 90,000 on one animal – that latch onto their bodies and drain their blood. Those are the findings from a new study in the Canadian Journal of Zoology that looked at moose…
Illinois officials warn of increase in ticks
Researchers have found that ticks that were once isolated to southern Illinois are now being found in the northern part of the state and vice versa.
Minnesota to see hungry ticks emerge in warm weather
“It’ll seem like there’s a lot more because they’re coming out in full force all at once instead of a little at a time.”
Ticks emerging unfazed following extremely snowy New England winter
It’s unclear if it will be a bumper year for ticks; some experts say a lot depends on if spring will be a wet one.
Too early for forecast on Lyme-disease ticks
What may be true in one part of the country – or even one part of a county – may not be true in another. And there are signs that the most common tick-borne illness – Lyme disease – may be occurring at roughly usual levels.
These days, there are many ways to keep ticks at bay
Numerous products now available to aid in both keeping ticks away and tick removal.
Even in Alaska, ticks gaining a stronghold
Alaska has had types such as vole and squirrel ticks that are found on wildlife, but newer to the state are two kinds of dog ticks.
Illinois seeing hike in tick-borne illnesses
The state had about 40 confirmed cases in 2000. By 2010, the number increased to 200 confirmed cases. And the provisional total for 2016 is nearly 350 cases.
Ticks are back in force across New England
Residents in Maine are complaining they are finding as many as 30 ticks at a time on their clothes, and public health officials in Vermont are reporting an above-average rate of emergency room visits for tick bites in the last three weeks.
Taking precautions to avoid ticks, Lyme
It seems as though this is a bad year in the Northeast for the pesky arachnids. Actually, it seems like that every year. On top of that, national news stories are surfacing about other tick-borne diseases like Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis and the Powassan Virus, which have everyone on high alert.
New information about ticks, Lyme disease in Pennsylvania
Experts are telling us that much of what we thought we knew about both is wrong.
Ticks could get big head start this spring
Dry weather reportedly tends to suppress the number of ticks. But a shot of moisture — along with warmer weather such as in February — can re-energize the tick world.
Connecticut officials bracing for bad year for ticks
Experts blame a warm winter and a large population of white-footed mice, which can carry the Lyme disease bacterium and spread it to ticks.
Human cases of tick-borne Lyme disease rise in Michigan
There were less than 30 human cases of Lyme disease reported in Michigan in every year between 2000 and 2004, but the number had jumped to 90 reported cases by 2009, and by 2013, it was nearly 170 cases.
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