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From Mendocino to Calabasas, as well as points further south and points in between. It starts with the adult western blacklegged tick, and those ticks
are joined by the Pacific Coast tick and American dog tick a little later towards spring.
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Dog Owners! There's serious tick encounter risk at BOTH ends of that leash.
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Are you getting a few more games in before winter arrives? Do you know the most likely place on the golf course to have a tickencounter?
Should you even be concerned this Fall?
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Ticks don't drown easily but they don't swim either, making flushing them down the toilet a perfectly safe means of disposal. However, TERC recommends a different approach.
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I say "ticks", you say "_______________". These days, many people would fill in that blank with "Lyme disease". Lyme disease, caused by an infection with the bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common tick-transmitted
disease of humans world-wide.
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Ticks the size of poppy seeds will start being active in May. These hard to see ticks are loaded with pathogens that can make you sick.
We bet you're thinking "it's going to be a long summer." Our suggestion, Get TickSmart™ and Get TickSafe!
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As the saying goes, "April showers bring May flowers" but this year, many flowers are coming earlier than normal, due to one of the warmest winters on record. The normal "seasonal phenology" [defined as the study of the timing of natural events] has been advanced forward for some organisms by a few weeks or even more. Seeing so many flowers blooming already this early in April reminds us that the principle vector of Lyme disease -- nymphal blacklegged ticks (aka. deer ticks) -- which usually begin to appear over much of their range in mid-May, are likely to show up even sooner this year.
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In Fall, there's nothing more enjoyable than a walk in the woods, except for dealing with disease-carrying blacklegged ticks! Recently, we were reminded that adult blacklegged ticks aren't the only tiny creature likely to latch on in Fall. So, what's flat like a tick? Sucks blood like a tick? Gets on deer like a tick? But ISN'T a tick??
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Getting an infestation under control may take several months and several treatments. It probably is best to call in a trained professional with experience controlling brown dog tick TERC recommends a 4-step process:
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Late August and September are when you may encounter an egg-batch worth of larval stage deer (blacklegged) or Lone Star (seed) ticks. These six-legged larvae hatch from egg masses that can contain 3,000 or more eggs that all hatch at about the same time.
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For those of you who have not yet heard, CERTIFECT™ is a new addition to the FRONTLINE® family of products. It combines the proven flea- and tick-killing action of FRONTLINE® Plus with a small amount of amitraz to potentiate the tick-killing power of fipronil (FRONTLINE®'s tick-killing active ingredient).
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There's a new book to help children (and adults) learn more about TICKS just in time for spring and summer, when families typically gear up to get outside and latch onto nature.
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Attention Monitor Lizard Owners: this TickEncounter story is for you!! Thought you couldn't have any more fun with your pet? ....well, how about if it brought you a SPECIAL tick encounter.
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Not everything is bigger in Texas. For example, take tick infection rates – that's the proportion of ticks infected with disease-causing microbes.
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Here's something to consider for those who like to plan ahead. More acorns in 2010 means more Lyme-infected deer tick nymphs in 2012. According to Dr. Richard Ostfeld, a biologist at the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Dutchess Co. New York,
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TickEncounter Resource Center is sad to note the untimely passing of a true TICK GUY – entomologist David Simser from the Barnstable MA Cooperative Extension.
