REGARDING the letter A duty of care in the Wirral Globe print edition of April 7.
Your correspondent Angharad Dishman is over-worried about ticks and Lyme Disease.
See www.nhs.uk/conditions/lyme-disease/
Ticks can only carry infection if they have already bitten an infected animal. Lyme Disease is carried by sheep and deer, neither of which occur in Wirral parks.
The rising numbers of cases nationally is largely due to increasing numbers of deer in southern England.
There are advantages to having longer grass - it allows wild flowers to flower and seed.
Every third mouthful of food we eat is held to rely on a pollinator somewhere in the food chain.
Pollinating insects have fallen in number by 75% in the last 50 years and are now reaching critical levels where in some places there are not enough pollinators for crops. We need wild flowers to support pollinators to supply us and other animals with food.
So welcome and enjoy the wild flowers and the insects - and regard Lyme Disease as a very remote possibility in Wirral.
Hilary Ash, Bromborough
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