yeah, knock on wood, but I've never had ticks in NJ after the leaves are down even if it's still not wildly cold and hasn't snowed yet
From: Paul Jost Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: Weather 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]> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [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]> To: "ENTSTrees" <[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]> 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
