"Just in time for National Lyme Disease Awareness Month, the Pennsylvania Department of Health launched a new online dashboard to provide Pennsylvania residents and health care providers with information about tickborne diseases. The online dashboard not only pinpoints where ticks are prevalent but also shows the latest state data on tickborne disease activity."
“Ticks have started. They only need about 4 C and they’re active and they’re questing,” explained David Beresford, an entomology professor at Trent University in Oshawa, Ont. (1/2)
➖rarely carry rabies, due to low body temp
➖usually do not bite
➖can eat about 4,000 ticks a week
➖eats cockroaches, mice,rats
➖does not dig holes, uses previously burrowed
➖will not wreck havoc in a garden
If they have found a warm place, leave them till spring or call a center #toronto
Your third recommendation for this month is the goopy and gross creature feature, Ticks. A tiny Seth Green, “Carlton Banks” on steroids, and loads of creepy crawlies causing havoc. A gorgeous disc is available, but not necessarily cheap.
We are heading to a new record of TBE-infections in Sweden, my colleague Petter comments this in DN. The ticks have benefited from the rainy summer. I think that we need a higher vaccine coverage, but some sort of subsidy is needed, because it’s quite expensive. #TBE#ticks#Epidemiology
Climate change is pushing ticks carrying the deadly CCHF virus to move through Europe. The mortality rate is ~30% within 2 weeks. There is no widely-available vaccine.
I remember seeing billboards my first summer in Sverige saying to get vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), another virus I had never heard about in the US.
New on Entomology Today: Effective and affordable tick management at the community level has long been sought after, but a new study shows the necessary costs remain steep. An analysis of integrated tick management models in a sample 1,000-acre, 320-home community find even a two-part program could cost about $400 per household, with more robust programs raising the price even more. #entomology#ticks#IPMhttps://entomologytoday.org/2023/08/17/community-wide-integrated-tick-management-costs-study/
Will tick-bite allergy, AGS (alpha-gal syndrome), turn us all into vegetarians and help save the planet?
Unlikely. But the deadly disease has been on the rise in the U.S., causing anaphylactic shock in previously healthy people who consume mammal meat and milk after being bitten by the Lone Star Tick (found mostly in the South and Midwest). And most doctors are still ignorant of the disease.
Many people think ticks jump or fly in order to reach hosts (you..). Luckily ticks can't do that.
The common way in gardens or woodland for ticks to reach a host is by a method called "questing".
Positioned on the edge of some grass they wait with a pair of outstretched legs (think: Jack & Kate on the bow of Titanic meet Michelangelo's Creation of Adam).
When you come in "legs reach" they just walk over (like a hobbit walking into Isengard).
Kid and I took the dog for a walk on an old class IV back road. The ferns are fantastic, some of them over 5 foot tall. The problem is that they and the grasses are harboring so many ticks right now. Pulled off a half dozen dog ticks partway through the walk and another pile of them when we finished.
Ottawa's tick population may get a head start this spring due to an unseasonably warm winter, researchers say.
Manisha Kulkarni, an associate professor in the school of epidemiology and public health at the University of Ottawa, said warmer weather could be the cause of a denser tick population in the region this year.
@Ivor@HelenGraham Funny, not, that you have posted this. Checking our dog after her morning walk today we found 2 walking in her fur.
Last year was the first time we have had serious problems near home in the Welsh Marches. Is it climate change? Deer population? Fluffy Bear wears a Seresto collar, but we doubt if it is very effective.
Seems this is going to be another bad year. #germanshepherd#ticks