tick, n.Trivia

A tick bite can make you allergic to red meat. Lone Star ticks can induce a sudden allergy to red meat.

Ticks are basically vampires in that they don’t just like blood, they need it to survive.

Deer ticks (nymphs) are, shockingly, no bigger than a poppy seed

Ticks take about 24-48 hours to transmit infections so, if bitten, you've got a bit of time to act

Ticks stand on bushes with their arms stretched out like burrs where they catch onto your foot and then they crawl up your body

Ticks are just as active in the winter as they are in other seasons

Ticks should be removed like a splinter,

Ticks transmit disease only after 24 hours. One might say that discovering one after a hike makes it a bit of a TICK-ing time bomb.

Opossum’s eat 95% of all ticks they come across — up to 5,000 a year.

Ticks carry all kinds of diseases, not just Lyme (Babesia protozoa, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, or encephalitis-causing viruses and Bartonella bacteria).

Lyme Disease is far less prevalent in the west coast of the US thanks, in part, to the Western Fence Lizard which carries a protein that cures the disease in the ticks that bite them

Ticks are arachnids, not insects; relatives of spiders and scorpions