Originally Posted by Stanton Hillis
Originally Posted by Drew Hause
Another migrant from the far east.
The Longhorned Tick, native to Eastern China, Russia & Korea has made it to the Midatlantic states and the Northeast. It carries Ehrlichia chaffeensis which causes Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis, usually spread by the Lone Star Tick (which is now widely distributed in the U.S.)


Thank God for 'possums. They eat a lot of ticks.

My god, i love armchair ecologists.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1877959X21001333

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