Not good news...ehd

[mainebowhunter]

http://www.lex18.com/story/36106313/deadly-deer-disease-reaching-epic-numbers

[BassBoysLLP]

I'm surprised southern IA and northern MO has stayed clean. Same weather.

[muddy]

Its popping up. Have heard of a lot of deer found in creeks the past week, as well as people finding bucks standing in weird places, walking in slow circles. Gunna be bad I think.

[Kybowhunter]

Just starting to get bad around the house here. Other counties I've been to seem to have been spared for now. We have also had plenty of rain. Wettest August I can remember. Dont really understand it.

[Whitetailaddict]

This is never good to hear. Hope it's not as bad as 2012

[Boogieman1]

I feel for you guys and glad it's something we don't experience down here. Must be heartbreaking findinding a bunch of up and comers u passed up laying stiff in a creek. Hope the worst is over for y'all.

[Jackson Marsh]

That really stinks.

[Dewey]

Not good.

[docwaters]

Its really spreading here quickly now, not just isolated in the eastern part of the Commonwealth.

[JoeRE]

I'm surprised southern IA and northern MO has stayed clean. Same weather.

It seems to get bad in that area around labor day thru September. Not sure why the timing is different but that's the way 2012 was too I remember.

[<DK>]

In 2011 I picked up a bow and started hunting again - I found multiple EHD deer that season. I didnt know much at the time about it but that is most definitely what happened. Here is a pic of a nice buck that I found on a hill side adjacent to bedding area.

[Dloat]

Hopefully this cure the guy in the last wired to hunt podcast talked about is legit and feasible

[stash59]

Just starting to get bad around the house here. Other counties I've been to seem to have been spared for now. We have also had plenty of rain. Wettest August I can remember. Dont really understand it.

Rain is why it happens. The midge larvae lie dormant while it's dry. Rain that fills normally dry waterholes. Causes the offending midges to hatch in large numbers.

[Whitetailaddict]

In 2011 I picked up a bow and started hunting again - I found multiple EHD deer that season. I didnt know much at the time about it but that is most definitely what happened. Here is a pic of a nice buck that I found on a hill side adjacent to bedding area.

Just wondering what makes you think the buck in the pic was EHD. It looks like it was hard horned and had tines broke based on the antler i see. I usually found deer with some velvet attached to the antlers as it seems to catch them late august early September as they're shedding.

[Greg4579]

Just read an article where it has been found in multiple counties in Western PA as well.