I'm not posting anymore here, but I can't leave this video unknown by the lyme community!
This is a utube video about a moose being EATEN up by ticks. They literally die after being sucked by dozens of THOUSANDS of ticks in Canada (the video says 100,000 ticks in a single moose).
I wonder if the disease the ticks carry don't help killing the moose.
More and more moose are being killed by ticks, and it seems the number of ticks in the last years are on the big rise.
Selma (I posted under hardy).
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treepatrol
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Something is really changed and it aint global warming.
Looks like were winding up to the latter days.
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But wait a minute... I live in Canada and the Canadian government says we don't have a tick problem. Posts: 93 | From Illinois / Ontario | Registered: Jan 2008
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Brussels
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This is in Alberta, not very far from the US border then! Well, tell these forest guards you don't have the tick problem there!
As for global warming, I do believe there has something to do with the rise on the number of ticks.
I can just tell what I see in my own garden and neighboring woods (just a few steps from my garden). Two years ago, the winter was so mild, I didn't get my rain water bucket frozen even one day. Well, this was BY FAR, the worst year for ticks, my cat came with literally HUNDREDS of ticks just in spring. I got so tired of burning them, that I decided to put them in many jars and do the killing at once after.
Some engorged ticks laid eggs inside the jars, it was disgusting. Thousands of eggs, it was like caviar of tick eggs .
This year, we got some days of frozen rain water, but temperatures didn't really reach very low for a considerable amount of time like 'usual'. Last week, my cat already started bringing ticks home(I pulled 12 in one day).
I DO see a relation between mild winters and the rise of number of ticks in the 'micro-ecossystem' around me. And so do the local newspapers. I'm in Switzerland.
I kept thinking the whole night, I DO think these moose were not dead BECAUSE the ticks sucked most of their blood off, but mostly probably because of disease thye cause.
If cows, dogs, cats can get diseases from ticks, why moose can't?
Selma
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