Culling Deer Won`t Reduce Lyme Disease
Contributors to this thread:Connecticut
From: airrow
13-Jul-14
The black-legged tick can live on three animals during its life span. In its immature stage, it can live on lizards and mice; in its mature stage, it can live on dogs, deer, horses and humans. Research informs us that 42 species of wild birds can carry the black-legged tick. Because birds can travel over a broad geographic area in their migratory routes, they can be much more efficient in dispersing the ticks than any mammal. So, unless we want to eradicate all small mammals as well as the songbird population, our dogs and horses and the deer, we will have to learn to tolerate the black-legged tick and take the usual necessary precautions to avoid contracting the very rare occurrence of Lyme disease.
