Paul:
Except for moose ticks, which are active when its below freezing, and
begin the active phase of their life cycle in late October. We have them
in northern MN--maybe its not cold enough for them to survive in WI. A
typical moose has about 30,000 of them during the winter. I had several
thousand of them on my pants once after walking through a black spruce
clone when it was about 25 degrees. Good thing they don't bite people.
Lee
Paul Jost wrote:
That's probably an exaggeration. I usually have no more encounters
with ticks after the leaves fall, and definitely not after the leaves
fall in followed by the first widespread, hard freeze.
Paul
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Sam Goodwin <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I was told by a veterinarian that you need 2 feet of snow on the
ground before you don't have to worry about ticks. I am heading to
Robinson State Park now so I will find out if its true. Sam
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<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Fri, January 8, 2010 9:30:54 AM
*Subject:* Re: [ENTS] Re: Weather
Will,
Do you mind if ENTS moves in with you. I'm sick of winter already.
It is snowing lightly outside now and the maximum temperature here
at the house will likely not rise to over 25 today. Saturday night
the temperature here at the house will likely be around 0.
One advantage to cold weather I always thought was thinning out
the populations of pests like ticks. But, if they're able to live
through extremely low temperatures, what the heck good is really
cold weather?
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Fell" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Friday, January 8, 2010 8:57:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [ENTS] Re: Weather
Yes it is all relative. It was 70 degrees here New Years eve and fell
like a rock Jan 1. Jan 12nd was the first below freezing morning this
winter and all week we woke up to temps in the 20's and highs only
about 50. This morning is the first day since Jan 1st we haven't
awoken to temps below 32. It was only 35 this morning, but the "warm
spell" won't last as it is to head to the low 20's tonight. Normally
we will get a day or two of cold weather then it will blow out to sea.
The cold has been the lead story in all the papers the past few days
and everyone is fussing about it. I imagine folks in New England would
be running around in shorts in this weather, but it has us in the deep
south shivering.
But I really wonder about the ticks. Here in South GA ticks are not a
problem like up north. You will get an occaisional tick, but not like
some places further north where you can't go in the woods without
spraying down. And we do not have lyme disease dispite having a heavy
deer population. So I really wonder if ticks and Lyme disease are
responsive to cold weather.
WF
On Jan 8, 7:34 am, Beth <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Ents,
> Wednesday night/Thursday day we here in St. Louis got between 3-6
> inches of snow. While this is not much the problem was the cold
front
> that came with it. High temps for yesterday were in the teens and
> today and tomorrow the highs are to be in the single temps. Of
course
> the wind chills have been -10 and below. This is heading
towards the
> Northeast today. I hope that everyone there dresses warmly and in
> layers if they have to get outside.
>
> I hope that this bitter cold (yes I know Lee, this isn't cold
for you)
> kills off some of the ticks around here. I am tired of pulling them
> off of me along with getting Lyme.
>
> Beth
