- cross-posted to:
- usnews@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- usnews@beehaw.org
Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
Yeah we just need to proliferate wild guinea hens and other tick predators to knock their populations down. I’d rather the entire eastern US look like Kauai (random feral poultry) than have ticks take over.
Opossum are native, eat ticks and do not carry rabies. They are heros!
Maybe… but there were so many examples of disastrous consequences for introducing a non native species to control a pest (biological pest control), like thr cane toad in Australia, or ferrets in New Zealand, etc…
“When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death”
So when is the government going to deliver my local squadron of tick-squashing gorillas?