"They also carry ticks which can harm other wildlife and birds."
People like deer, even as they realize that they carry ticks and damage plant life.
Any mammal in the woods can carry diseased ticks.
Although pets cannot transmit the disease to humans, they can carry ticks into the home.
The deer are not the only villains: field mice and other small rodents also carry Lyme-infected ticks.
When taking refuge these guaneras birds in this place the birds carry ticks.
But the weather did little if any harm to the animals that can carry ticks infected with the Lyme-causing spirochetes.
Deer carry ticks, including the kind that are infected with Lyme disease.
They carry ticks that cause disease.
The deer carry adult ticks that lay eggs in the forest, which hatch the following summer and attach themselves to white-footed mice.