Climate Connections features Steeve Côté

Winter ticks can cause moose to lose their fur, stop eating and become weak. For calves, they could be deadly. A recent Yale Climate Connections radio program shared TWS member Steeve Côté’s work testing whether anti-tick pesticides help deter ticks from moose (Alces alces) calves. Only 7% of the moose treated with the pesticide died compared to 40% of those left untreated. But capturing and treating individual moose poses a challenge, as does limiting tick habitat. Yale Climate Connections interviewed Côté, an ecology professor at Université Laval in Quebec, at The Wildlife Society’s 2024 Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

Listen to the radio segment here and read an accompanying article on the Yale Climate Connections website.