07-21-2013, 07:13 PM
My brother had a dog when he lived in Nu'uanu on Oahu. It's pretty wet there. The dog would get fleas but I never saw a tick. They moved to Kapolei, which is on the hot, dry leeward side of Oahu and boy did they ever start getting ticks. Maybe ticks don't like wet conditions.
As for tick borne diseases I don't know. Concerns with leptospirosis and more recently rat lungworm are widely publicized. I also took a hunter education course (one place they mentioned lepto). They said nothing about ticks so it may be there is nothing tick-borne in Hawaii.
As for tick borne diseases I don't know. Concerns with leptospirosis and more recently rat lungworm are widely publicized. I also took a hunter education course (one place they mentioned lepto). They said nothing about ticks so it may be there is nothing tick-borne in Hawaii.