“ On Jamestown they are pretty thoroughly abundant . This year , we ’ ve been getting citizen reports from all over the state — Lincoln , Warwick , West Greenwich , Charlestown , Westerly . This is a real change over the last eight years . Submissions to TickSpotters , URI ’ s crowd-sourced tick survey , increased by 300 percent .”
And he fears that an experience already playing out on Long Island is a harbinger . Scott Campbell , a medical entomologist and laboratory chief of the Arthropod-Borne Disease Laboratory at the Suffolk County Department of Health Services , says “ we still see plenty of blacklegged ticks ; it just seems that the Lone Star tick has moved to the front of the class . We attribute it to the expanding deer population — they are very deer-dependent for feeding and reproduction . They are less susceptible to desiccation , unlike blacklegged ticks , which are found in more moist , shaded environments .”
Lone Star ticks lay masses of up to 5,000 eggs , and the larvae only move about three feet from where they hatch . They are not microscopic , but small enough to be unnoticed by a human walking through . When that happens , the unfortunate can suffer hundreds of bites , Campbell says .
Blacklegged ticks , meanwhile , pick up bacterium such as the spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi — which causes about 300,000 reported cases of Lyme disease annually in the United States — during the larval stage , when they typically feed on rodents and birds , their first hosts . The nymphs seek mediumsized mammals for their next meal , when they have a second opportunity to acquire the spirochaetes . The ticks ’ quest is hanging out on a grass blade or a leaf waiting for a host , such as a whitetailed deer or a human , to pass by . The Lone Star tick is more aggressive and less specific when seeking hosts .
Brian Kelly , owner of East End Tick and Mosquito Control in Southampton , New York , says that controlling for
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