War Of The Ticks: Doylestown Area Nursery Fights Back

A Plumstead Township Nursery has implemented a new device designed to combat one of the region’s most notorious - and dangerous - pests: Lyme disease-carrying ticks, according to a report by The Intelligencer.

A plastic deer feeder coats the deer’s ears with permethrin, a tick-killing pesticide, the report states.

Everywhere the deer goes, it will spread the pesticide. Ticks constantly latch on to deer to travel, and experts anticipate the plan will be highly successful, the report states.

Scientists with the US Department of Agriculture developed the technique in response to the rise of lyme disease-carrying deer ticks in the region, the report states.