Fascinating to think the climate has so many different variables. Such a large system, a little pressure in one spot results in a spike somewhere else. “They m

Fascinating to think the climate has so many different variables. Such a large system, a little pressure in one spot results in a spike somewhere else. “They must be stopped, she believes, and the 2015 CDC map shows why. In it, ticks are seen moving into places that only a decade before had been considered ill-suited to support them, from the Allegheny Mountains to the Mississippi Valley, from western Pennsylvania south and east across Kentucky and Tennessee. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, I scapularis ‘appears to have expanded in all cardinal directions’, the CDC researchers reported in language that was sometimes remarkable and alarming.”