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Posted 12/11/2015 9:34 PM (GMT 0)
Got another call last weekend. My friend was gathering trees at the school Christmas sale. Well, the trees were from Maine, and her daughter ended up with a tick on her scalp!! I give up, these bugs are so impossible!! because the weather is so warm over here, I guess the tick season has been extended. so besides being transported to the city from Fire island and the hamptons by dogs, they are now being transported from other states bc of Christmas trees - GRRRR
Posted 12/11/2015 10:05 PM (GMT 0)
And birds are transporting them through out the continent.
Posted 12/11/2015 11:29 PM (GMT 0)
I would imagine ticks were/are already living quite comfortably in your area, Chapelle. And, there were many articles written about our crazy long winter last year and how the steady snow layer insulated the ticks.

There's really no escaping them - blech.
Posted 12/12/2015 12:26 AM (GMT 0)
Chappelle is correct. I saw this article yesterday www.wearecentralpa.com/news/experts-warn-about-ticks-on-christmas-trees (Bay Area Lyme Foundation posted it on FB

It's due to your unseasonably warm weather.
Posted 12/12/2015 12:58 AM (GMT 0)
Well, I most likely will not be spending the Holidays with my family due to Lyme and company!

I sure as Heck don't want to spend it with a bunch of ticks falling off my tree!

Artificial trees for me from now on! :)
Posted 12/13/2015 1:34 AM (GMT 0)
i know girlie, the birds, the bees, the mice, but Trees?? (figured I would be funny and make it rhyme) - but seriously, we have to worry about Christmas trees now!!!??

I use fake ones anyway, thank goodness!!
Posted 12/13/2015 2:27 AM (GMT 0)
We always get a real tree....and I hadn't thought about the ticks...yikes.
Posted 12/13/2015 12:00 PM (GMT 0)
In the next life I am coming back as a tick, that seems to be the only way you don't have to worry about them....

Did I mention tick season just started here? Can you tell I am overjoyed at that?? I already pulled another one off me and I was only up the olive tree. Grrrr....
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