Moose and Ticks

[First-light]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/us/ticks-moose-vermont-trnd/index.html

This is sad. Kill the ticks not the moose!!!

[UpStateRedNeck]

I read about this a few months ago.  It's also a reason why Elk are doing well in moose country.  I guess the Elk groom themselves very well and it helps keep their tick infestation down?

[Daveboone]

Same as around here, less severe winters aren't getting the deep freeze that keeps the tick numbers down.

 

 

[mowin]

Good friend in Maine has seen 2 moose infested like that.  

There definitely spreading north at a fast pace. 

[LET EM GROW]

Typical CNN.. kill the moose not the ticks... What a joke.. 

[mowin]

6 minutes ago, LET EM GROW said:

Typical CNN.. kill the moose not the ticks... What a joke.. 

Don't think it's CNN but the wildlife department. 

Either way I agree. Kill the ticks. 

Maybe it's the agency's way to justify lowering the heard numbers. Could be they received backlash from the public for wanting to reduce the heard in the past, and now are using the ticks to their advantage? 

Edited February 26, 2020 by mowin

[bugsNbows]

I read the article. My only "beef" was them referring to ticks as mites. They are not. Whatever!