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why did ticks multiply that much recently? It's because of warmer winters and an exploding deer population. People need to take up hunting again to reduce the
by HarryHirsch 7y ago
why did ticks multiply that much recently?
It's because of warmer winters and an exploding deer population. People need to take up hunting again to reduce the numbers of those tick motherships.
- DennisP 7y agoThat might not help much. From the article: > If the urban rat was the primary carrier of bubonic plague, the country mouse is it for Lyme disease.
- ethagnawl 7y ago> People need to take up hunting again to reduce the numbers of those tick motherships. ... or, as others have said elsewhere in the thread, restore a balance to the ecosystem by reintroducing and protecting natural predators (wolves, foxes, etc.).
- HarryHirsch 7y agoYou'd think that putting wolves and bears into suburbia would attract even more resistance than bowhunting from tree stands. Something must be done about the deer overpopulation, they raid peoples' gardens, they prevent forest regeneration, they are a pest. Maybe we could start by withdrawing from the suburbs.