In Our Backyard 12/02/11

Albany, NY – Listener Lou Domanico writes in with two questions on ticks, the first being, "Where were ticks (in the capital district) twenty to 30 years ago?" what and what has kept their population down, and the second, "During the summer are ticks so specifically eating off their favorite species (deer and mice) that they do not bother humans and dogs and then what drives them to dogs and humans in the fall?"