https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2024/03/16/wisconsin-sees-ticks-active-months-ahead-of-schedule
Wisconsin sees ticks active months ahead of schedule
By Margaret Faust | Wisconsin Public Radio
March 16, 2024
Adult ticks, approximately half of whom are infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, are ready to feed earlier than usual this year.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Diseases at the University of Wisconsin-Madison started to look for ticks in February, almost two months ahead of schedule.
Experts said the results were not unexpected given the unseasonably warm weather. The arachnids become active when temperatures are above 40 degrees and there is a lack of snow cover.
Lyric Bartholomay is a professor in the department of pathobiological sciences at UW-Madison. She recently spoke with WPR’s “The Morning Show” about the early start to tick season.
“It is sort of upsetting, right? Because it’s just so early,” Bartholomay said. (See link for article)
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A Few Important Points:
- More and more experts and science deny the entire ‘climate change’ narrative, and more data shows there is no climate emergency, but in fact mainstream media is using corrupt data.
- Independent research has shown the climate has nothing to do with tick and disease proliferation. In fact, warm winters are lethal to I. scapularis (black-legged) ticks. Overwinter survival dropped to 33% when the snow melted. This has been substantiated by other researchers as well. Scott & Scott, 2018, ticks and climate change, JVSM
- Go here to see how resilient ticks are.
- The researchers don’t expect there to be more ticks than usual despite getting an early start.
- It is also unclear if tick season will last longer or if more ticks will transmit Lyme/MSIDS.
- Most ticks collected in February were adult black legged ticks, of which 50% were infected with Lyme disease. About 20% of nymphs carry the bacteria.
- Then the article talks about the new Lyme “vaccine,” which is hotly contested. Please see:
- Go here for prevention: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/12/tick-prevention-2019/
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 