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Nasty, nasty things. They've really exploded in the past ten years or so in New England. When I was a kid, you never had to worry about checking for ticks whe
by megaman22 9y ago
Nasty, nasty things. They've really exploded in the past ten years or so in New England. When I was a kid, you never had to worry about checking for ticks when you went outside and roamed around - you'd get chewed to death by blackflies, mosquitos and copperheads, but that's relatively harmless.
Last summer, one incident I had to pull a couple hundred off my dog after she wandered into a particularly bad section of the willowwacks. Just awful little beasties.
- Steve44 9y agoI read an article in New Scientist a year or two ago about these. They were talking about counting the acorns on the ground as a predictor as to Lyme disease in two years time. Quite an interesting article overall. I read the physical magazine but think that https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431195-800-lyme-disease-is-set-to-explode-and-you-cant-protect-yourself/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431195-800-lyme-dis... is the same article.