They're the Democrats of the arachnid world. I don't mind a good honest spider offering to up and bite me, but this business of slithering around till they get a good hidden place on ya is just vile.
WOW! That’s next door in Oklahoma! Spread through tick bites? They are thick this year!
Ping...
Ugh. HATE ticks! Virbac makes a good tick spray for yards. I don’t know if a growth regulator (IGR, like Archer) would work on them since they’re not insects.
Just googled & Methoprene is the growth regulator for ticks. Don’t know anything about it wrt to safety/ applications, though.
Don’t know if this counts ...
Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico (Hemorrhagic Fever)
"The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population."
" But careful reanalysis of the 1545 and 1576 epidemics now indicates that they were probably hemorrhagic fevers, likely caused by an indigenous virus and carried by a rodent host."