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Ihe deer-mouse caravan is aided in part by something lacking any feet at all: Acorns. Deer like acorns. So do mice, according to Gaines, which become more plentiful soon after ingestion. Researchers have noted - due to the two-year life cycle of ticks - an increase in Lyme two years following a heavy acorn crop.
Long-time Rappahannock resident E.C. “Pete” Jenkins said 2006 was a very large acorn year, “the biggest I ever saw.” So 2008 could possibly be a whopper for deer ticks and Lyme incidence in the county.
According to three Massachusetts-based scientists, here are the basics to a deer tick’s 2-year life cycle: Adult ticks, following a yummy blood meal in the fall, leave the deer to lay eggs in the ground, which hatch the following spring; larval ticks prefer to dine on mice in the late summer, whereas nymphal ticks abandon their Mice Taxis late spring and early summer to feed on unsuspecting humans.
It is this nymphal tick - the tiny little dot not more than a millimeter long —that primarily transfers Lyme to humans. And this is bad news for man because, due to their size, nymphs are often overlooked as moles and even specks of dirt.
While it is possible to become Lyme infected by adult ticks later in the fall, the spring/summer time period should be high-alert season for suspicious new “moles” popping up from nowhere or fast moving flecks of dirt.
Dispensing of ticks can be a real challenge. Master chef Heidi Morf of “Four and Twenty Blackbirds” fame tried to get rid of a tick by tossing it into a sink with a chaser of water. When Vinnie DeLuise entered the bathroom later, he was surprised to find “the little bugger
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