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Agreed. I vote to reintroduce wolves.

This. Reduce the ticks' food supply.

Or some other means of controlling deer populations, like, say, hunting.

Like mosquitos, we could create a gene drive for these tick species and eliminate them.

There is a fungus that is approved to control ticks called Met52:

https://www.novozymes.com/en/advance-your-business/agricultu...

Novozymes took it off the market for tick control for some unknown reason a year or so ago, though it still seems to be available for aphid control. I had some applied to my yard a year ago, haven't seen any ticks since then, however I also eliminated places that mice nest in and had a lot of brush cleared. Been applying Damminex tubes as well.

Opossums and guinea fowl are both great at finding and eating large volumes of ticks.