Our July edition of Tree-Talk focuses on ticks and tick-borne diseases. Our special guests this month are ANR Educators Tim McDermott, DVM (Franklin County) and Marcus McCartney (Washington County). Check out these videos to learn how you can protect your family, pets and livestock from the increasing threat of ticks and the diseases that they carry.
Full episode (29 minutes) including Marcus McCartney’s personal experience with Lyme disease: https://youtu.be/bKkTeJozh1U
Protecting yourself from ticks (3:30 minutes): https://youtu.be/3AwOzLxk5_g
Tick removal (3:41 minutes): https://youtu.be/9HPAuG8cS9Y
Useful websites:
https://u.osu.edu/tick (click on the tick tab on the top left of the page)