US invaded by savage tick, sucks animals dry, spawns w/out mating. 8 states now.

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  • ArcadiaGP

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    US invaded by savage tick that sucks animals dry, spawns without mating. Eight states report presence, no evidence they're carrying disease.'

    The tick, the Asian longhorned tick (or Haemaphysalis longicornis), has the potential to transmit an assortment of nasty diseases to humans, including an emerging virus that kills up to 30 percent of victims. So far, the tick hasn’t been found carrying any diseases in the US. It currently poses the largest threat to livestock, pets, and wild animals; the ticks can attack en masse and drain young animals of blood so quickly that they die—an execution method called exsanguination.

    Key to the tick’s explosive spread and bloody blitzes is that its invasive populations tend to reproduce asexually—that is, without mating. Females drop up to 2,000 eggs over the course of two or three weeks, quickly giving rise to a ravenous army of clones. In one US population studied so far, experts encountered a massive swarm of the ticks in a single paddock, totaling well into the thousands. They speculated that the population might have a ratio of about one male to 400 females.

    Yesterday, August 7, Maryland became the eighth state to report the presence of the tick. It followed a similar announcement last Friday, August 3, from Pennsylvania. Other affected states include New York, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.
     

    cerebus85

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    ever wonder if they intentionally gives us invasive species...I mean it would be kinda humorous to them because we wouldn't even associate it with a planned activity. and then someday BOOM, we get something that wipes out wheat or corn and our breadbowl exports are destroyed
     

    T.Lex

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    Something that devastates our food production and, ultimately, our economy? I think that's called a "trade war." ;)
     

    Leadeye

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    It's sounds like they will be chasing us hunters down for dinner if the article is to be believed. Better buy more permethrin.
     

    yetti462

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    Just think how fire would help the control of ticks. Right now it would be hard to get one to carry in the woods, but as soon as the relative humidity dropped and fuel dried, torch the woods. All the freshly hatched lonestar ticks would get cooked. The Indians had it figured out.
     

    seedubs1

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    Ticks seem to be worse year after year. Hiked the Knobstone this year. One of my friends had 23 ticks on him the first day.

    Permethrine folks.....use it.
     
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