Originally Posted By: GLS
Georgia Southern has a tick research facility and has the United States National Tick Collection. Eat your heart out Harvard. What a distinction for the 'Boro. http://cosm.georgiasouthern.edu/usntc/ A buddy's farm was studied for tick population and the researcher put a quantity of dry ice on a blanket and dragged it through the woods and left it for hours and came back. The blanket was covered with ticks. They are attracted to CO2 which is the component of dry ice.


I saw them using dry ice to check the population levels of ticks on a TV show years back...I don't doubt it being true but its' hard to imagine that's how they are attracted to prey.

A good buddy of mine told me he saw on the news earlier this year where there are some new tick borne diseases that almost make Lyme look like a bad cold.