Originally Posted by
bluebird2
But keds don't transmit Lyme disease , so IMHO ticks are much worse. I'm still picking up at least one or two a day even though we don't have many deer.
Has anyone found a study where Lyme disease decreased as the herd was reduced.
Since deer ticks favorite hosts are deer AND rodents, the size of deer herd often has little to no effect on the tick population. Favorable weather has much more to do with the good and bad tick years.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.co...deer-tick.html
Last edited by BTBowhunter; 07-15-2009 at 03:20 PM.