Hello, Can you please make your readership aware that the walking path in the woods by Lake Carasaljo is full of ticks.
I parked at the entrance at South Lake Drive (near Hope Road) and walked through the wooded path. As I was driving home, I noticed a tick crawling on my finger. I later pulled off 15 ticks from body and found dozens more on my socks and clothing. My husband also found a tick on his leg that had already bitten and many more on his clothing. This is the second time I walked at the lake and came home with ticks.
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I think the township needs to do something about the Ticks, and preferably without hazardous chemicals
Maybe they can use opossums as a tick control. Opossums eat thousands of ticks a season. It’s safer than spraying with chemicals.
Diatomaceous earth powder. Very effective to kill ticks and it’s not toxic.
I’m ticked off that the problem has not been addressed or publicized earlier.
Very serious issue. More important than planting trees behind the Lakewood public high school.
There are ticks all over Lakewood and NJ, including in your backyard, unless you treat for it, this isn’t new, people should be aware. I have found ticks on one of my children over 10 years ago. We treat our backyard ever since.
If you let your grass on lawn grow high you will get large tick population. I see many lawns with grass rather tall but I don’t think owners realize they are creating a wonderful environment for ticks.
Is it the townships responsibility to take care of the ticks?
I know how bad they are. They are found on high grasses. Pulled a few off this year and treated my dogs. Please check yourself and your children at the end of the day. My husband was in an induced coma for a few weeks a few years ago because of tick bites he didn’t see. They said it was a miracle that he survived. I was told in the hospital that they had quite a few patients in the same way, many from Jackson. Take care!
Opposums eat ticks—plus a lot of other pests like rats, mice, roaches etc. Maybe a colony of opposums can be relocated there. These critters look scary, but I raised an abandoned baby possum as an 8 year old child for several months until it got too big and was released into the woods in the area where I lived– and still live nearby that area . Once released, I left some possum food in the area of release for awhile to make sure he was fed. Now that we are into the year 2018, I still have a few opposums that come to my house to eat some leftover cat food–and hopefully wood ticks and other pests. I have not found a wood tick on me or my indoor/ outdoor cats for a couple of months now. So obviously, opposums played a role in this.
I am appalled every time I see an opposum dead in the road in Lakewood or elsewhere. How can you not see a critter crossing the road unless you were not paying attention? Please be careful when driving at night so that you do not kill these wonderful creatures. They are helping us out by getting rid of the ticks.