Posted on 03/03/2017 10:34:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Moose calves across northern New England are dying at alarming rates, and scientists believe that deadly parasites benefiting from shorter winters are the primary culprits.
Winter ticks have taken a toll on moose across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, killing about 70 percent of moose calves. Winter ticks attach themselves to a single moose by the tens of thousands.
“It’s just off the charts; this should not happen with such frequency,” said Pete Pekins, chairman of the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). “This is about a calf carrying 75,000 ticks that are draining it of blood.”
Winter ticks may be thriving in part due to the New England ecosystem being disrupted by global climate change. According to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson, the average winter temperature in Maine has climbed 4 degrees Fahrenheit between 1895 and 2015.
“This region of the country is one of the areas that’s warming the fastest in the lower 48 (U.S. states),” Anderson said.
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feed them garlic.
#fakeweather
If it happened due to colder weather-ignore it.
If it happened due to warmer weather-trumpet it to the skies.
It's not nice to mess with Mother Nature.
Wait for iiiiiiiiiiit.
You don’t believe the winters are getting warmer in that area? I believe there are certain areas that are showing evidence of Climate Change, but I don’t believe mankind is directly responsible for this happening. Climate, just like the weather, has always gone through cyclic changes.
Maybe a few species of birds can be introduced in that Moose habitat. Birds who will prey on the ticks. Certain amphibians like toads and bullfrogs could also help.
As long as squirrel is still okay.
I’m 57. 5his winter and last year have been mild. The three winters before that were biblically awful. Golf course with temp greens late June kind of awful. This is malarkey.
Lock up your sisters. Moose on the loose!
Meeses have been duped and sabotaged by the groundhogs trying to deny globull warming.
Climate change simplified: Fill in the applicable information
When the weather is _________ than average, it is proof of the climate change. When the _________ ice sheet is __________, it is consistent with models showing climate change.
Can these ticks supplement their diet from other sources Mooslimes).
This is nuts.
It has been well known for decades that the limit on moose populations is the length and severity of the winter.
The longer the winter, the smaller the moose populaiton.
That is because food is severely limited for moose during winter. If the winter is long and severe, the habitat can only support so many moose. That is the limit the habitat can support. When winters become less severe, more moose survive, and the population goes up.
The writer would have us believe that moose are having problems that would not exist if only the winters were more severe.
It might be true, but the “problem” exists in part, because there are more moose.
But there is a difference between climate and weather! Or so I am always told when I make such a comment.
Comedian Alonzo Bodden says, “Once you sort out that partly cloudy partly sunny thing then you can come and talk to me about armageddon.”
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Wi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ?
See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic moose
A moose once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge—her brother-in-law— an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian movies: “The Hot Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink”...
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti...
That has to be one HUGE tick that can take on a moose. Climate change make them that big? It was radiation with Godzilla.
Yes if we were looking at actual global warming, virtually all of the planet would be warming.
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