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To understand the tick population, a Davidson college professor is studying ticks in the Piedmont. He came to Davidson from a college in Missouri, where he says there is a much higher tick population. While he says ticks are a growing problem in the Eastern United States, he says his data is finding not as many exist in this concentrated region of the state.

Ticks thrive on animal and human hosts. Usually, he says they like to hang out on the edge of things, like a forest. Herman-Giddens says you need to stay vigilant, especially if you are heading out to the mountain region to hike, and she says there has been a lot of disease within the state.

She says make sure to wear tick repellent and recommends wearing long, bright-colored pants so you can spot a tick, and tuck your pants into your socks and shoes. Herman-Giddens says use tweezers to pull a tick off and pull straight out, ensuring you also pull the head of the tick out and not just the body. She says to tape it to a card and mark the date you found it, as well as where on your body you found it. She says then mark your calendar 30 days from now, because symptoms most likely will occur within the first 30 days.

She says to always make sure to check yourself for ticks after spending time outside, whether you have been hiking, gardening or just walking. Your study shows that the tick population around our part of the North Carolina piedmont is low— which runs counter to predictions.

Why is that? This is shaping up to be a bit of a mystery; ticks are becoming a pretty big problem both as a nuisance and a public health threat in many parts of the east, but for some reason not right around here. We have plenty of deer and other hosts, and we have lots of apparently suitable habitat. Because they ride on deer and pets and people ticks can move around pretty well. I think that is a bit of a surprise.

Is there something different about the environment here that makes it less tick-friendly? Identifying that difference may help us address tick overabundance in other regions.

Are the rates of tickborne diseases TBD accordingly low too? Yes, but again, only in our sub-region. Ticks, and tickborne diseases TBDs , are spreading and becoming more common in the eastern United States. To the east, other diseases like Ehrlichiosis are on the rise as well. In our part of North Carolina and in other parts of the east there are still places where people can go out and enjoy themselves with very little risk of encountering a tick and even less risk of being exposed to a TBD. So, people who enjoy the outdoors should be wary and mindful, but not fearful.

Driving to the hiking trails is almost certainly more dangerous than going for a hike. What are some possible explanations for the small tick population around Charlotte?

It could be so many things. It could be that we have lots of mesopredators coyotes, foxes, bobcats that keep rodent densities low. It could be that we have lots of possums which, interestingly, are really good at killing ticks. Despite their reputation, possums are fastidious self-groomers and kill any ticks that get on them. Is this good news? This is a hard question. It depends on what you value in nature and biodiversity. Some people look at non-human nature and focus on the intrinsic value it holds; every species has that kind of value and has a right to exist.

Even ticks and mosquitoes are biological and evolutionary works of art that have value as pieces of a huge and intricate puzzle. We know that different species have different levels of value from a human perspective, and from that perspective disease vectors such as ticks may have negative value.

   

 

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    Apr 14,  · Here in North Carolina, there are four species of ticks that you have to be aware of. The American dog tick It is not a carrier of Lyme disease, but it can transmit Rocky . Ticks in North Carolina. Because of the illnesses they can spread, ticks are a serious health threat to residents of North Carolina. It is recommended that NC residents know what ticks . These common North Carolina tick species are known for transmitting multiple diseases. Not every species will spread the same diseases, and some are more likely to bite people than .