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The articles I catch about tick diseases cite global warming changing ticks’ active season and breeding patterns, not overabundance of host animals. Not that I’m disagreeing, necessarily. I see lots of deer and rabbits, anecdotaly, more than would normally roam together if active predators were around. The urban hawks and foxes do at least seem to be taking advantage of the rabbit buffet in my neighborhood (I see them regularly, which is amazing), but yeah, no wolves roaming my suburbs. What’s your theory as to why under-predation isn’t getting cited? Families just wouldn’t be ok with living in proximity with wild wolves so it’s just not a solution that can be presented by media?

My area needs this sooooo bad. We have one of the highest Lyme disease rates in the country. Unfortunately, Alpha-gal disease is now also in this area, so even with this vaccine, every family walk even near the woods or fields still has to be followed with full body and hair inspections. Every time. So many ticks… Ugh.

Same here. There was a window of a couple of months when some NC background process wasn’t running reliably in Android, but that got fixed (a year ago?) and it’s been rock solid before and since.

Oh no! You’ll arrive 5 minutes later while reducing pedestrian fatalties! How will Murica survive?