Moose enjoy a winter tick-free summer!

The summer months are a 'winter tick-free' period for moose and other host animals. Depending on where they live, they could in theory pick up other species of ticks on the look out for a host right now, but moose are now free of the burden of winter ticks!

Winter ticks will now exist solely as tiny eggs on the ground, waiting to hatch in a few months time. The next generation will start to look for a host (begin "questing") in mid-September.

So for now, it's a good time to be a moose!

Posted on June 3, 2019 06:30 PM by emilychenery emilychenery

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