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solo@piefed.social Joined: 2025-06-07

White-tailed deer are less important than previously thought

Mice matter more

The acorn effect

Mouse numbers don't predict the proportion of Lyme-infected ticks

Extreme temperatures don't kill ticks in the wild

fireweed@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-13

Extreme temperatures don’t kill ticks in the wild

This surprised me because I thought climate change (specifically warmer winters) were behind the explosion of tick populations in the United States and Canada.

solo@piefed.social Joined: 2025-06-07

I think both these things can be true. Maybe warmer winters tick's population grow, and in the same time ticks can be resilient to high temperatures during summer

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