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Tick season is in. Careful all you forest bathers. Could find dozens if not hundreds of them yesterday, located on the end of plant stems on the edges of dirt paths.
They idle like this:
They open their front legs when they sense movement, i.e., potential hosts to latch on to:
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The only creature I despise more than mosquitoes. I love living in NJ but the ubiquity of both drives me nuts
Worse than the mosquito sound?
Oh yeah. At least mosquitos fuck off when they’re done
As ticks ever killed a person? I was reading one article that in some areas ticks are so bad they are draining deer dry. Scary when you hear that. I once saw a video of ticks chasing after someone who was filming.
They can carry Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever which kills anywhere from 1/8 to 1/4 of people who contract it.