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Category: black-legged tick

January 1, 2013January 1, 2013

Black-legged Ticks

This marks the 20th anniversary of my column for the Pennsylvania Game News. The first appeared in January 1993 and concerned the Carolina wren. Thanks for reading! —Marcia Last January I walked along the Black Gum Trail. Since our son, Dave, constructed the trail halfway up Laurel Ridge, back in the 1990s, I had never […]

Posted in black-legged tick, Brush Mountain/ Plummer’s Hollow, mice and voles, white-footed mice, white-tailed deer. Tagged anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, deer ticks, Lyme disease, Richard S. Ostfeld. 12 Comments

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