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In some places, more sightings have been reported than last year. However, they only give an indication of the number of ticks. Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalomyelitis, on the other hand, have so far been much less frequent than last year.
– I never thought there could be so many.
When he lived in Vaasa, Uhlgren didn’t come across many ticks. During his eight years in Turku, he has been bitten by them in fifteen summers.
The warm late summer kept the ticks active, and the Punkkilive.fi website, run by the University of Turku and pharmaceutical company Pfizer, received almost 3 000 sightings from the Turku region in August alone.
However, overall there are clearly fewer entries from the Turku region and the capital region than last year.
On the other hand, further north in the Vaasa, Kokkola and Oulu regions, more sightings have accumulated than last year.
According to him, it’s because we’ve learned to live with ticks: vaccinations have also been taken outside of Uusimaa, Northern Finland and Åland, and tick checks, tick removal and monitoring of symptoms are familiar.
More than 74,000 tick sightings have been recorded throughout the country so far.
Last year, September was a busy reporting month, and observations were still made in November. Researchers are also interested in how long the ticks’ active season is.
– Inevitably, there is a connection between things, but tick life also correlates with the population, meaning that a lot of observations come from places where there are a lot of people.
Field surveys, however, seem to confirm what the observation map tells. For example, many sightings have been reported in Kumpula, Helsinki, but only a few in Seurasaari. Field surveys have given similar results regarding the number of ticks.
The chief administrative physician Heikki Kaukoranta from Vaasa also believes that the number of ticks can vary greatly locally, but remain in the dark on the map.
– Maalahti, with 5,500 inhabitants, may have the same number of ticks as Vaasa, with 66,000 inhabitants, but there are fewer notifiers.
On the other hand, both Sormunen and Uhlgren believe that some people have lost the urge to report their findings.
– How much do the people living in the archipelago even report, because the tick is already like a mosquito – a part of everyday life? ponders Uhlgren.
Arttu Uhlgren does a lot of boating, and woodpeckers are always welcome from the archipelago. He got his first tick in Mariehamn, and then it was still terrible.
– I got a bit of a feeling that this is where it will die now. Now I’m already used to ticks, but such a number (57) is disturbing, says Uhlgren.
An exceptional tick avalanche hit Jungsfruskär, near Åland. There were two friends and a dog on the nature trail; their balance is a couple of ticks per man and five in the dog.
Uhgren has experience over the years that punks don’t seem to care about others.
– I have a strange way of attracting ticks. If you and your spouse are in a mushroom, I also collect ticks.
Only once has Uhlgren had to take a course of antibiotics, when one tick had managed to avoid the daily inspection. The tick situation still does not limit his movement.
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There are various types of flying squirrel posts in several places around Finland, but there is no evidence that any flying squirrel has ever used them.
The wood grab of the crane truck grabs a 15-meter high impregnation wood post on Kuitinmäentien in Espoo. However, this is no ordinary electricity pole. At the end of the post there are two cross-beams of just under a meter for flying squirrels.
In Finland and the capital region as well, there are already quite a variety of implementations for flying squirrel poles.
– There are such design versions and some consultants even suggest metal poles. In Espoo’s Laajalahti, there are real pines like that, which have been stuck upright to grow, Lundgren lists.
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Deer flies can cause purulent sores and long-lasting symptoms. Moose flies, which also thrive on humans, have already spread to the Arctic Circle.
Flies are best found after a trip to the forest, when you can open your hair.
– When they bite that neck, it can be quite a sore for several months, from which the wet drips quite properly, Hakkarainen says.
Hakkarainen is not the only one with symptoms from deer fly stings.
– The deer fly causes itchy skin reactions, some of which are prolonged. People know how to treat them well themselves with cortisone creams and antihistamines, Heino describes.
However, Mirka Hakkarainen has not visited a doctor but has treated the bites herself.
Hakkarainen spends time in the forest picking berries, mushrooms, hunting and training dogs.
– When deer flies start stinging the scalp, they are the easiest to find, sums up Hakkarainen.
According to Juha Heino, there are also people who have prolonged symptoms from deer flies. Some have not been aware of deer flies, and therefore have not known how to protect themselves when going into the forest.
– The skin reactions are itchy, reddening, just like any sting or bite. They can even have lumps. If the reaction is prolonged, stronger cortisone is needed.
At best, Mirka Hakkarainen has dug 34 deer flies from her head at home after the trip. Now the situation is getting easier, as the cool mornings make the deer flies fit, but when the weather warms up, they wake up again.
