Some tick info from the University of Rhode Island.

Looks like I was wrong on the number of eggs. It is 2,000 and NOT 200,000. One good thing I guess. frown


http://www.tickencounter.org/faq/deer_and_rodents

Interesting point from the above web site:

"One last comment�deer are the most important REPRODUCTIVE HOST for deer ticks. In RI, on average every deer, every year feeds enough adult deer ticks to allow those ticks to create an estimated 450,000 new, larval ticks. Blame the ticks on the deer, blame the infections on small rodents that are INFECTION RESERVOIRS."

My take from that is; if you have Deer you can't stop the spread of ticks.

Last edited by battue; 04/14/14.
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