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    2. crazycanuck1212 on

      Yes. They are here in droves. I work out in woodlots and traipsing through the bush in Ontario. Some days I’ll get hundreds. I rarely get bitten, though. A few times a week maybe.

      Compared to 10 years ago their numbers seem astronomical. Northern Ontario is now no longer exempt either.

      Black legged ticks are moving north rapidly, and the lone star is making appearances now. Just take precautions and most importantly do frequent and thorough tick checks, that’s the main one. Get them off early (day of) if they bite. No amount of deet or other deterrents will keep them off you.

    3. Recent-Sprinkles5041 on

      Is there literally nothing scientists can do to get rid of them?

    4. Gullible_Vacation949 on

      They need to have some 
      initiatives for grants/subsides for buying things like the thermacell tick tubes. But that brand is so expensive for what it is. Hell I don’t even think you can make them at home because the chemical is regulated at the levels needed to make them. 

      Having multiple governments (feds, provinces, municipalities and possibly working with the USA federal and state governments) and try various solutions to slow the speed/population of ticks.

      I think I read something about they were doing something with mice and releasing them and I think it was if the tick bites them they die or something (honestly forget). 

      But they need to do something it’s getting out of hand. Wait until it’s not just the rural people dealing with them, and kids are getting them at school, parks and home in the suburbs. Maybe then something with be done about them.

    5. Sunray21A on

      Is Lyme disease still shrugged off by the Medical system? Or have we gotten over that from the 90s?

      I remember it being a big fight of whether it even actually existed, and then if it did treatment was another struggle.

    8. Canadian-made85 on

      Im on a rural lot by lake erie and I’ve never seen it so bad. We check the kids and ourselves daily and the dog every time he walks out the door. We have also noticed those flat fu*€ers sneak through any crevice they can and have been woken up to these a-holes crawling on my face.

      I live in an older house so the crevices are to be expected..not the goal is to find them all and seal them up whether it is from the house shifting, crappy contractors from plumbing/electrical/HVAC and windows.

      The chaos is real LOL

    9. CathycatOG on

      We have had ticks in Canada for as long as I can remember. What a ridiculous headline.

    10. jimbeam84 on

      Health Canada should legalize permethrin for use in Canada. We should be able for to treat our shoes and clothing with it once month to prevent ticks from crawling on us as a preventative measure.

    13. Alert-Mix-5540 on

      Or we could reinstitute prescribed burns like people did here for millennia.

    15. SailorGone on

      I’m in BC and I’ve never seen a tick or even heard of anyone encountering one. I still check myself and my kids when we go out in parks and such though

    16. SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING on

      Close the border. Americans are not sending their best. Or maybe this is their best. Hard to tell.

    17. Meowerinae on

      They’ve been here, and we could have about a decade of data on the Lyme vaccine, but we don’t: thank you antivaxxers!

    19. LookingFor-Answers77 on

      And then there’s this: *“Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible. After explaining the symptoms of AGS and how they are transmitted via ticks, we argue that tickborne AGS is a moral bioenhancer if and when it motivates people to stop eating meat.“*

      https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bioe.70015

    22. HistoricalReception7 on

      I walk from my house to my car to my office and have pulled several ticks off of me so far. We need to be more aware that they’re also in urban areas, not just grassy areas.

    23. Intrepid_Habit_1343 on

      If we used MAGAlogic, this is the USA fault, close the border and turn off the taps until the administration stops the flow of illegal ticks into Canada!

       Ohh and release the trumpstien files!

    24. CruelRegulator on

      This bothers me to the point that I start coming up with unhinged ideas such as: Spider farms, turkey farms, etc. I’d sign up to work at either. I’m horribly afraid of these bugs but love spiders. Idk.

      Edit: A more unhinged idea would be to lower the rodent population (their main food source) by increasing the predator population (eg. Foxes) but, side effects ofc.

    27. SomeDumRedditor on

      But hey, climate change isn’t real and even if it is there’s no problem that’s worth impacting profit. 

      Right Gen-X and Boomers? 

    29. waitabittopostagain on

      — a heat dome with sustained temperatures over 40 C can kill them off, for example —

      I say we wait for global warming to payout, and let the problem solve itself.

    30. daddyhominum on

      Myself, my wife,my dog, all got ticks on the same hike in Jasper , Alberta in early summer of 1963. Everyone in town new how to remove them. So, ticks aren’t moving in. They have been here for ages.

    33. GuardianOfFogAndMist on

      Those things freak me out and I’m very glad it isn’t a problem in Newfoundland yet.

    34. AvidOxid on

      I’m a pretty avid camper. I started going about 5-6 years ago.

      I haven’t even seen/noticed a tick in the backcountry up until 1-2 years ago. Now, early in the season (June), we see an ungodly amount. I just got back from an early June trip last week. They were everywhere. They were crawling all over my tent. I’m not going to be camping in June anymore, I suspect.

      I think they tend to chill out in July/August (at least from what we’ve noticed over the last couple of seasons).

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