Winter ticks are diminishing calf survival.

[Kingman Cruncher]

This is an interesting thread. I spent 30 years in the Army and was stationed and trained in many locations, the majority being in the southeastern and Midwest USA. Chiggers were common there and I had them many, many times. The difference between them and what I had on me in Allagash is that I never, not once, saw a chigger on me and in Allagash I clearly saw tiny red, tick like bugs.

No chigger experience, but yes these are reddish brown tick/crab shaped. Very small but can certainly see them. Could be chiggers, could be moose ticks, could be some other insect. Certainly only get them in high concentration moose areas and in low hanging brush, typically in NW Maine.

 

[longbow]

Chiggers.

 

[groundtender]

No chigger experience, but yes these are reddish brown tick/crab shaped. Very small but can certainly see them. Could be chiggers, could be moose ticks, could be some other insect. Certainly only get them in high concentration moose areas and in low hanging brush, typically in NW Maine.

Yes, that was in Z8 and Z4 for me

 

[hammertime]

When I got my moose last October, it had very few ticks. Others in the southern parts of Zone 7 we're infested. You can see them. They are not hard to spot

 

[JDK]

Yes, that was in Z8 and Z4 for me

I roam around a lot in 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. I've never had the "bites." My buddy, on the other hand, gets hammered every year.

 

[RememberBaker]

I roam around a lot in 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. I've never had the "bites." My buddy, on the other hand, gets hammered every year.

He probably smells like a moose.

 

[groundtender]

I roam around a lot in 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. I've never had the "bites." My buddy, on the other hand, gets hammered every year.

Likewise for me 3&6. No bites there

 

[skinner]

we built an air strip and sprayed to protect forests from the budworm and now we just let the moose die and maybe we should just spray Augusta

 

[mainer4570]

we built an air strip and sprayed to protect forests from the budworm and now we just let the moose die and maybe we should just spray Augusta

Ha ha! Along the same thinking, Back in the late 70’s when the “new bridge” over the Kennebec in Randolph was under construction, a friend suggested that it really should be a dam high enough to flow out Augusta!

 

[Flatlander]

Didn't notice ant ticks on the cow I killed last fall. We were in zone 8 between Jackman and Rockwood. Are they active in October ?

 

[Flatlander]

Didn't notice ant ticks on the cow I killed last fall. We were in zone 8 between Jackman and Rockwood. Are they active in October ?

Not ant ticks , any ticks

 

[JDK]

The short answer is that the landowners value trees more than moose.

 

[JDK]

The other short answer is that the landowners tolerate hunters because they have to.