Deer keds parasite
10-21-2007, 04:34 AM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 40
Deer keds parasite
Thanks to ( Wilds ). here is a link to a website on these things. Has anyone had these things on their deer in New England I am from MA and only seen these things for the past 2 years in a specific area that the deer were taken from. Other deer from different areas I have shot they were not presenthttp://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN585
10-21-2007, 08:35 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 3,236
RE: Deer keds parasite
Our deer are loaded with them in PA. Most hunters mistakenly refer to them as ticks. They are a fly and drop their wings when they find a host. They land on people and bite them too. I have been bitten on the neck by them before. They move very fast as opposed to ticks, even in cold weather.
I believe thatPA is infested withthem because of the overpopulation of deer in past years.
I believe thatPA is infested withthem because of the overpopulation of deer in past years.
10-21-2007, 09:55 AM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Steuben County, NY
Posts: 354
RE: Deer keds parasite
I see them all the time while skinning deer here in the western Finger Lakes Region of NY...seems like most every deer has a few on them. I've even had a few crawling in my hairover the years too after skinning a deer. I don't really even paymuch attention to them. Thankfully, my area doesn't have many ticks...I've never even seenadeertick on adeer thats been harvested around here.
