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Topic: Is Killing All the Deer The Solution ?

Bartenderbonnie
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Is killing all the deer population the solution to the tick explosion problem ?
What's next. . kill all of god's animal kingdom ?

http://cnycentral.com/news/local/nearly-50-of-ticks-test-positive-for-lyme-bacteria-in-onondaga-county

If anyone lives in this area, maybe pass on the latest research protocols for mice vs tick control. Mice should be the first line of defense.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/27/scientists-try-to-build-a-better-mouse-trap-in-quest-to-kill-ticks.html

I hate ticks just as much as the next guy.
I don't see how eliminating deer ( one of thousands of warm bodied mammals) will be the end all solution. That doesn't make sense. We have to target the ticks, not the animals they ride on.

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TrekCoord
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"We have to target the ticks, not the animals they ride on."

Exactly.

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Robin123
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No, not the solution. Ticks are also found on small animals and birds, as well as vegetation.

One person at the recent TBI working group hearing mentioned that nootkatone can kill ticks. Research ongoing.

I've also wondered about carbon dioxide machines, since ticks are attracted to it. There was a little robot demo of such - wonder what happened with it.

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Bartenderbonnie
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Here's a tick predator.

http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/bull-market-guinea-hens

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MADDOG
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Kill the dirty little mice.

Plagues always come from mice or rats.

MADDOG

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Tincup
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Robin 395893 said... "carbon dioxide machines".

That is the principal behind dry ice used in traps to attract ticks.

If ticks can't find mice and deer they will feed on many other things.

Just like us! If we are hungry and we can't get a prime rib we will eat a hot dog in order to survive.

And a blood meal is what they need to survive and multiply so the pickings will be less finicky.

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Tincup
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UGH UGH UGH....

Just what we DON'T need... Spotted Fever (and more) transmitted from insect to plant, to another insect!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29234308

[Eek!]

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Bartenderbonnie
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MY BRAIN JUST EXPLODED.

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