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Apr 05, 2021
Cortland Standard
The weather is warming spring is here and so are the ticks. And they’re carrying a slew of illnesses, old and new.
Blacklegged ticks and American dog ticks aren’t new to the greater Cortland area and surrounding areas and neither is Lyme disease. But the Asian Longhorned tick, an invasive species from East Asia, and the Lone Star tick, indigenous to the United States but found on Long Island, are getting closer.
“Ticks don’t follow the calendar like people want them to follow the calendar,” said Glenn Reisweber, executive director of Lime Hollow Nature Center in Cortlandville. “Anything above 35 degrees is tick season, they’re out running around now.”
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