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• gcanyon
  Seems likely that ticks should go in the same category as mosquitoes -- how long until we use gene-drive tech to completely eradicate them?
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  kbaker
  We have (had?) some ticks in our backyard and I came across these which I thought was a clever attack angle: tick tubes.Permethrin-soaked cotton balls in a tube, mice find them and build nests out of the freely available cotton, ticks that the mice have gathered while walking around die when they come back to the nest.
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  DivingForGold
  Don't know which is worse - - contracting Lyme disease, or Parkinson's disease from Permethrin and other pesticide exposure:https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2009/09/occupatio...https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27756609/
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  opwieurposiu
  If you are out in the woods and you come upon a roughly circular area of crushed down grass, that is a deer bed. Try and avoid walking through it, deer beds are full of ticks.The deer trails are a lot harder to avoid.
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  matsemann
  No ticks at the altitude I reside. But with global warming it's slowly creeping up towards the towns further down. Same with Spanish slugs. Will soon be able to thrive here as well.
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  pcmaffey
  A healthy wolf population is the proper (trophic cascading) solution to the tick epidemic.
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  washbasin
  Through a combination of two of my hobbies, I learned that pyrethroids are toxic to aquatic animals. Glad to see that they used "locations [that] were situated away from waterbodies". Pyrethroids are very powerful tools for insect control (and non-toxic to humans) but any place where you have runoff or ground seepage is going to be a problem. Aren't those places the ones most likely for ticks to thrive -- areas near bodies of water where animals like deer come to drink?So hot take: this would only be useful in places where there are not a lot of ticks?(PS: Permethrin-sprayed clothing is very effective.)
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  pluralmonad
  I've spread beneficial nematodes several times before and the following 2-3 years I get notably fewer tick bites. They are a bit of a pain to spread over any significant area.
• Hnrobert42
  Calls to mind one of my favorite Simpsons moments.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGv6RASFsY4&t=26s
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  tamimio
  I got bitten by a mosquito in Ottawa a couple years ago that sent me to the hospital.. I stopped near the river while cycling to see a raccoon for few seconds, was more than enough for that lil sucker to do the job.
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  nephihaha
  Some birds eat ticks including guinea fowl of all things.
• beautiful_apple
  > Twenty 50-m trail segments across two sites were randomly assigned to intervention groups: untreated woodchip borders, deltamethrin-treated woodchip borders, and ten assigned to untreated controls.> Treated woodchips reduced I. scapularis adult and nymph density by 99 % (incidence rate ratio (IRR) = 0.01, 95 % CI: 0.001–0.08) relative to controls, while untreated woodchips achieved a 48 % reduction (IRR = 0.52, 95 % CI: 0.34–0.78).
• aaron695
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  bluerooibos
  Another worrying proxy for how deeply climate change is bleeding into everyday life: coffee prices, orange juice prices, and now having to engineer huge trail areas with woodchips just so people can avoid being bitten by exploding tick populations.