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Board discusses ticks, flies and distribution of tick-removal kits as insect season peaks

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Board members reviewed local reports of ticks and flies, recommended public-use prevention strategies (fly bags, sticky deer‑fly patches, dragonfly hat clips), and said they can distribute tick-removal tools from a prior MRC effort.

The Robertson Board of Health spent a portion of its July 8 meeting discussing vector-borne concerns as residents report more ticks, deer flies and horse flies in town.

Members described household prevention measures: hanging commercially sold "fly bags" filled with water at downwind corners of property to…

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