{"id":201152,"date":"2025-10-04T07:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/201152\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:42:07","slug":"new-invasive-species-discovered-in-tri-state-area-poses-threat-to-pets-and-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/201152\/","title":{"rendered":"New invasive species discovered in Tri-State area poses threat to pets and people"},"content":{"rendered":"

OXFORD, Ohio (WKRC) – A new invasive species, the Asian longhorned tick, has been discovered in the Tri-State area, raising concerns for pet owners<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Chantel Raghu, a veterinarian at the Oxford Veterinary Hospital<\/a>, identified the tick after a dog owner brought in their pet covered in hundreds of ticks following outdoor play in Middletown.<\/p>\n

“The owner had found that the dog had stepped into a nest of a bunch of tiny little ticks and the dog unfortunately was not on tick prevention,” Raghu said. “We removed the ticks, got the dog on medication, and then I was looking at the tick under the microscope and realized that it was different from what I’d seen before.”<\/p>\n

The United States Department of Agriculture confirmed the tick as a longhorned tick, first reported in the U.S. in 2017 and known for its rapid spread.<\/p>\n

“The crazy thing about this tick is that it can reproduce asexually, meaning they don’t have to mate to lay thousands of ticks,” Raghu said.<\/p>\n

While most of southwest Ohio shows no record of the tick, its presence in Butler County suggests it may be in other surrounding counties as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Raghu noted due to warmer temperatures and moderate winters that “not only are we having more ticks and different types of ticks, but we’re having them year-round.”<\/p>\n

Pet owners are advised to ensure their animals are on flea and tick prevention medication, which is effective against the longhorned tick. Keeping lawns well-maintained can also help reduce tick habitats.<\/p>\n

The tick must bite and latch on for about a day before it can transmit serious infections like Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Prevention and protection remain the best defense against this invasive species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio (WKRC) – A new invasive species, the Asian longhorned tick, has been discovered in the Tri-State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[115780,115776,192,4167,33347,97438,115779,79,115778,115777],"class_list":{"0":"post-201152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-asexual-reproduction","9":"tag-asian-longhorned-tick","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-invasive-species","12":"tag-lyme-disease","13":"tag-pet-owners","14":"tag-rocky-mountain-spotted-fever","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-tick-prevention","17":"tag-tri-state-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}