To the Editor:

As a year-round resident of Long Beach Township and a certified Ocean County master gardener, I would like to let residents know there are deer ticks, better known as blacklegged ticks, on the Island.

One of my pets came in with an engorged deer tick she picked up in Loveladies. Since I volunteer in the Ocean County Tick Lab, located at 1623 Whitesville Rd. in Toms River, I brought the tick in and identified it as a deer tick. This is the second deer tick in the past few months I have found.

Although we do not have deer on the Island, the deer tick can possibly carry Lyme borreliosis, an infectious disease…

May 10, 2017