Maine is now one of the highest states for incidences of lime disease. This is understandable because so many people work in the woods and Maine is an outdoor paradise for sportsmen.
During the sixties and seventies I was a survival instructor in northern Maine. We put as many as fifty students through our courses a week and never once did we have a tick on any instructor or student.
Ticks came into Maine sometimes in the nineties. Now they are a major concern whenever you go into fields or woods.
BILL MAHER EXPLAINS WHY WE HAVE TICKS IN MAINE
We live in a new world
and we can't go back
the Ol'Buzzard
We never used to have lyme disease carrying ticks in Canada. It was too cold for them to survive. Now they're in the southernmost parts of Ontario etc. thanks to global warming.
ReplyDeleteYeppers, the bugs are going to take over. Thanks for the video.
ReplyDeleteForty years ago we never saw ticks on our place here in the U.P. Not sure just when it changed, but now they're a reality. This year they don't seem too bad, but I figure sooner or later it'll get to where it's like living in Arkansas (a place where ticks are the state animal and poison ivy is the state flower). I don't worry about Lyme disease. The one that scares me is ehrlichiosis.
ReplyDeletemy oldest gg is covered with bites ..everything around gets her...fleas(not my cats) chiggers..and mysterious other bugs.
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