Ticks!
By eirlys
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Do you have ticks in your part of the country?
We have lived here for a long time and it is only in the last ten years that we have seen ticks in the garden. I have been bitten and been tested for Lyme Disease, as a precaution. We also check after working in the garden.
Deer sometimes trespass and they are the possible source of ticks, I think, but there must be some other reason for the prevalence of this nasty little arthropod.
They are tiny and I often wish they were bigger so I could have the satisfaction of stamping on them!
Newspapers report an increase in the tick-population and on the TV programme, “Trust me I’m a Doctor,” the other night, Dr Michael Mosley, had some good advice. However it involved walking around muffled up from head to toe!
24 Jul, 2015
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Having had dogs as part of the family almost all my life I'm very aware of that particular nasty so we always used a preventative.
Once after a picnic in Thetford forest I even found 2 on me, fortunately I've never found any in the garden tho.
24 Jul, 2015
They been around for a very long time - prehistory in fact. sheep/ hedgehogs are a common hosts too.
24 Jul, 2015
.............but they are on the increase, according to the experts. Global warming?
25 Jul, 2015
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I saw a warning a couple of weeks back about an increase in people getting bitten by them, it contained a warning about Lyme Disease, cannot remember whether online or in my gardening mag, good idea putting it on here as forewarned is forearmed as they say...
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