Alisande -- fascinating article, thanks for sharing. I just read it aloud to my husband, who contracted Lyme disease twice in the early 1980s in Massachusetts. That was long before knowing that quick application of antibiotics was the thing to do (then).

We get our yard sprayed for ticks twice a year and have done so since 2010. Since doing this, I have had only one tick on me (a few weeks ago, not embedded). A previous summer before we started the IPM program, I had 36 ticks on me over the summer months. Freaked me out majorly!!

Why does it show this post started by editoria and not Alisande? On the main page?

I've seen the same when using my phone, I appear as snidely something and not elmer. Different coding for the field depending on the connection type?

PS. sorry for you and anyone else dealing with ticks of any kind.

I don't think I was ever Editoria at GardenWeb or Houzz. I've joked that I've been Alisande for so long that I know for certain I'd answer if someone called it out on the street. :-)

I see editoria also.

Inter-continent travel has it pluses and minuses. This new tick infestation is likely the result of ticks hitching a ride between continents. Nasty stuff.

Jemdandy, I've often thought many of the problems we have today wouldn't exist if people had just stayed put. :-)