Originally Posted by
ironwood
Were they the deer ticks that carry Lyme? I have found deer ticks on my clothing on a warm winter day even though there was snow on the ground.
As to the OP's idea that global warming has caused lyme disease to move South to NC, I'm puzzled. It makes sense to blame global warming for the northward progress of Lyme from Southern NE to northern NE and Canada, but NC has always been warmer than NE.
Maybe it's the deer.
Good Qn about how much of the spread into NC is attributable to the deer vs. climate change. Maybe some of that is the deer. However, the animated map here
https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/01/...limate-change/
suggests the NC counties most affected are along the Atlantic coast & in the Piedmont, & the same article mentions New England & the Midwest US as the places where deer are much more numerous now. No mention of NC in that respect.