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Some blame the rise of ticks and tick borne diseases like Lyme on the demise of predatory snakes. If true, the balance may not be ideal.
by bmh_ca 10y ago
Some blame the rise of ticks and tick borne diseases like Lyme on the demise of predatory snakes.
If true, the balance may not be ideal.
- etangent 10y agoOn the other hand, one would expect snakes to suppress the population of amphibians and some ground-nesting birds like nightjars and thus indirectly increase the population of mosquitoes. So clearly, one would have to also introduce something that eats these snakes, like gorillas perhaps. /sarcasm