Please stop with Lyme tick nurseries. Aka, How to prevent ticks in your yard. Certainly, many people are considering while they plan their outdoor spaces: “How to prevent ticks in my yard?” In the region of upstate New York where we live, Lyme disease- an infection of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria that’s spread primarily by […]
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Tick Prevention for Yards. Recently an article was published on our website called Please Stop with the Lyme Tick Nurseries. Certainly, homeowners consider their family members’ safety. Altogether, “tick prevention for your yard” is a big priority. What’s a tick nursery? The tick nursery analogy is the result of a correlation between invasive, exotic Japanese
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Recently we published an article about the link between using Japanese Barberry shrubs in landscaping and an increase in human Lyme disease infection rates in the surrounding neighborhoods. People in Saratoga Springs, Albany and Schenectady, NY are learning about this. We humans are collaborating against ourselves in a public health crisis through lazy and shortsighted
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