Let me tell you about Blue Tongue. The scientific term is something like epizoologic hemmhoragic disease. Some parts of some counties in Maryland, namely PG County and Charles County among them, got hit with it the year before last, and the one before that. Anyway, between the two years, it killed off about 80% of the deer herd or more. Where a buddy of mine would see 15 deer in fields at night before blue tongue, he'd see 1 to 3. Deer seemed to die in big numbers between about August through September or so. In fact, he is just now seeing the deer herd build back to decent numbers. I can tell you that if it is widespread in your area, hunting will be poor. Even in his best areas, where he used to see 15 to 25 deer a day in his treestand during an all day vigil in the prerut chasing period, he saw few, if any. Most places, he wasn't even seeing deer at all.