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Faunsdale, AL | DEET is for mosquitoes. Permethrin for ticks. Daughters are both field biologists. They take tick bite prevention seriously.
Was at vet meeting in January. Tick expert from Kansas state was presenting. He says the reason we are seeing more Lone Star ticks (the ones that are known to cause alpha gal allergy) is they are expanding as deer populations build up in their historic range from before European settlement. He says experimentally, if white tailed deer are removed from an enclosure, that type of ticks will disappear within a few seasons.
Same situation for “deer ticks” in the NE and Midwest. They are almost as dependent on white tailed deer and only maintain a high enough population to reliably spread Lyme disease among the small mammals and rodents that are the reservoir for it when there are plenty of white tailed deer.
Here in the South we are lucky enough that the sub population of deer ticks we have tend to feed on different animals and do not spread Lyme disease among the small mammals as efficiently even though we have and have had very high deer populations for a long time. | |
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Ticks and Permethrin Treated Cloths
