[at-l] Ticks was Verna Soule

[kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>]

Mara Factor wrote:
 Does anyone know what conditions make for a
> bad tick year?  Last year was dry and there were only a few sections that I
> really heard people talking about the ticks. 

I'm not a tickologist, but this year featured a very early end to 
a warm winter, with no late frost here in Pa..
Maybe it was coincidence, but it seems that in years with like
conditions the tick/flea population soars.  My thinking is that if 
there is a early warm spell, the ticks get active and then get killed
by a Mar or April freeze which knocks the numbers down.  There
was no hard freeze like that this year.  It's been a bear for 
ticks around here.
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