View Full Version : Lyme Disease Prevention: Put deet on the deer
WingedMonkey
07-23-2011, 17:34
If Lyme disease wasn't so serious I would get a chuckle out of this approach.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) has granted an exclusive license of the ARS patented '4-Poster' Deer Treatment Bait Station to the American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc. (ALDF)
http://www.aldf.com/fourPoster2.shtml
WingedMonkey
07-23-2011, 18:05
Correction: The tickicide used was amitraz or permethri, not DEET
In the National Geographic AT movie, they were putting permethrin cotton balls in the shelters for the mice. Sort of like these
http://www.ticktubes.com/
My question is how long before you get permethrin resistant ticks?
A little research and find we already have them for cattle.
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1603/0022-2585%282007%2944%5B308:FROPBM%5D2.0.CO%3B2
besides deer, mice also carry lime.
Panzer
WingedMonkey
07-24-2011, 18:19
besides deer, mice also carry lime.
Panzer
Agreed it is the Lyme infected White Footed Mouse that is the prime host for the larval ticks before they move on to other mammals.
Snowleopard
07-25-2011, 00:57
wnderer, thanks for that link -- permethrin resistant ticks is bad news. Hopefully that doesn't happen on the trails we hike.
wnderer, thanks for that link -- permethrin resistant ticks is bad news. Hopefully that doesn't happen on the trails we hike.
We created the permethrin resistant ticks in the link by using permethrin on cows. Enough ticks tried to get on the cows, until some ticks survived. If we use permethrin on the deer and mice, the same thing will happen. Then permethrin won't protect people from ticks. Seems to me trying to fix nature is a bad idea.
I'm thinking DEET crop dusting over the trail.....