Testing Limits Of Presidential Power, Trump Declares Ban On Ticks & Mosquitoes

 White House Issues Another Executive Order 

Mosquito-Crossing Sign on the Parks Highway. (Journal archives, 2010) 

This One Targets Ticks & Mosquitoes In The Nation's Capital 

The White House has issued quite a few executive orders lately. 

The most recent one zeroes in on ticks – which are on the rise on the East Coast and cause the dreaded Lyme disease – and mosquitoes, which are common world-wide. 

Alaska does have some ticks, which affect moose in the winter, but disease-carrying ticks are not common to the state, though people who go Outside sometimes bring them back accidentally. 

Mosquitoes in Alaska are a different matter. They are so plentiful and so annoying that Alaskans call the mosquito "The State Bird."