I hate ticks. Like Indy hates snakes.
The doctors here don’t tell you come in if you get bit, or have the tick analyzed. Come in with a bullseye rash and a fever, or confusion and headache, or one joint arthritis.
I’ve had Lyme twice and it doesn’t make you immune.
But it is possible to kill ticks with your immune system. I used to, lost the ability, might have done it again last week.
Asian Longhorns tick is new to the US, swarms in vast numbers. Tolerates sunny dry conditions better than deer tick.
I hate ticks.
My wife knew a woman who bought a few acres of land in a northern rural part of Maine, and there was a small shack on the property. She decided to sleep in the shack one night when she was visiting the property trying to figure out next steps.
She woke up and there were ticks all over her, and they were marching towards her on the floor...she ended up tearing off her clothes and running into her car where she spent the rest of the night picking ticks off of herself.
Shudder. I hate ticks more than spiders, if that is even possible.