{"id":5269,"date":"2019-05-01T18:47:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T23:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2019-05-01T18:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T23:47:44","slug":"surge-in-wisconsins-tick-population-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/surge-in-wisconsins-tick-population-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge In Wisconsin&#8217;s Tick Population in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You Won\u2019t Be Happy To Hear That Wisconsin Is Experiencing A Major Surge Of Ticks This Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The beginning of spring means we all start to head outside, but it also means the beginning of tick season. Unlike many other animals and insects, many species of ticks can actually withstand winter weather and they aren\u2019t killed off en masse by the cold. In addition, our winter was mild until late January and February, giving them longer to prepare for the cold. Now the longer days and more sunlight let the ticks know it\u2019s time to head back out and find their next meal. In May, their nymphs emerge and the tick population swells. Combine that with more humans out and about, usually with more exposed skin, and it\u2019s a recipe for a possibly dangerous situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlyinyourstate.com\/wisconsin\/tick-season-wi\/?fbclid=IwAR1-qmT6UNM9DXghiVUwSD1hxivo_NX0BsydjYZf5SrTfmgxDZ5lSuKs-zM\">You Won\u2019t Be Happy To Hear That Wisconsin Is Experiencing A Major Surge Of Ticks This Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2026\/03\/wood-tick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Won\u2019t Be Happy To Hear That Wisconsin Is Experiencing A Major Surge Of Ticks This Year The beginning of spring means we all start to head outside, but it also means the beginning of tick season. Unlike many other animals and insects, many species of ticks can actually withstand winter weather and they aren\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":5270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}