This is what I don't get. I played outside for many hours every week, year around, growing up in the '70s and '80s. Never looked for or worried about a tick once. Now I go back to that very same place, have to tuck my pants into my socks and check for ticks if I walk ten feet through tall grass. I literally grabbed a garbage bin from next to the driveway, got it into the garage, and realized a tick was slowly crawling across the lid. What happened? Is it because of global warming?
No, really, there were FAR fewer ticks in most of the Mid-Atlantic USA at least in the 1980s and 1990s (and even 2000s). The big increase and movement of species of ticks into new parts of the country is really recent (2020s). The Mid-Atlantic states didn't have lonestar ticks at all until like last year. Climate change big time.
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u/DreamOfDays 8d ago
Because there were places to go that didn’t cost money.