{"id":10786,"date":"2017-04-17T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10786"},"modified":"2017-04-17T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:16:11","slug":"very-bad-tick-year-forecast-for-alabama-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/04\/very-bad-tick-year-forecast-for-alabama-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Very bad tick year&#8221; forecast for Alabama in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AL.com<\/em> has a story this week about the likelihood of Alabama and other areas of the Southeast experiencing a very bad year for ticks. \u00a0This is due to the mild winter that the region has experienced this year. \u00a0In the article they noted that \u00a0&#8220;The warm, wet winter and spring have created conditions for dense undergrowth in forests, which allows ticks to thrive.&#8221; \u00a0In addition, the range of some ticks has expanded in recent years due to overall warmer temperatures. \u00a0You can read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2017\/04\/very_bad_tick_year_expected_fo.html\">https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2017\/04\/very_bad_tick_year_expected_fo.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10787\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/deer-tick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10787\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/deer-tick-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/deer-tick-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/deer-tick-209x138.jpg 209w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/deer-tick.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The black-legged tick, or deer tick, is known to carry and transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. It is one of four species of tick found in Alabama.(CDC photo by Jim Gathany)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL.com has a story this week about the likelihood of Alabama and other areas of the Southeast experiencing a very bad year for ticks. \u00a0This is due to the mild winter that the region has experienced this year. \u00a0In the article they noted that \u00a0&#8220;The warm, wet winter and spring have created conditions for dense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10788,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786\/revisions\/10788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}