Re: another reason to dislike barberry

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Hi, Teri!

As a Ct Advanced Master Gardener, we were made aware of the Ct Agricultural Experiment Station's work on this a few years back. There is also an element of this that has to do with earthworm activity beneath the barberry from the increased humidity. A Google search will turn up about 6 articles on this subject from various credible sources. One of them quotes a study of removal of the barberry resulting in lower Lyme disease incidence.  Hard to argue with the data and yet another voice to be added to the chorus on increasing our use of natives as we remove the barberries.

Lorraine 

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  From: Teri Chace<t*@aol.com> 
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  Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 8:01 AM
  Subject: [GWL] another reason to dislike barberry

   Good morning, all:
  A non-hort friend sent this link to me. The author asserts that there is a connection between barberry and deer ticks, and therefore Lyme disease. Anyone else heard this theory?  Hmmm.

  http://jessecology.com/2013/10/please-stop-with-the-lyme-tick-nurseries/<http://jessecology.com/2013/10/please-stop-with-the-lyme-tick-nurseries/>

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