Pest Organisms / Blacklegged Tick
Is It A Pest
for Blacklegged Tick
Yes — the disease risks above make it a public-health pest. Not every tick is infected, though: in Minnesota, roughly 1 in 3 adult blacklegged ticks and 1 in 5 nymphs carry the Lyme bacterium, so a bite is a concern, not a certainty. Source: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/tickborne/ticks.html