yep...not the tick's fault - they just do what they do.
But at the end...any epidemic desease has been "shipped" in history...if it's not ticks, it's human trade ways and their vessels...
Scientists on an island were experimenting with an artificial disease, and they did not know deer could swim. Whoops! The testing deer got off of the island with some hitchhiking ticks, and Lyme disease spread around the world. Maybe if those scientists did a little more research!
I'm not crazy about these guys... I live a few miles outside of Lyme, where Lyme disease originated. We find lots of these. Never thought to take a picture of them!
No, I've never had horses. We have ticks here too in southern Ontario, though most of them are in the bush. I've never seen as many ticks anywhere as I did in Guyana.
You haven't had horses Dan! In Colombia ticks are really common. Even in the city when you go out and walk your dog in the grass, it is good to check them before you go into your house, because you never know.
its not that big as it appears singled on a picture...
it's actually about 5mm maybe 7mm.
(and its half fed)
and yea, they're totally common around the woods and fields here..just caught it out of my dog's inner leg-skin...so, this will happen surely again this year and I'll get a better shot in daylight and sun than indoors without using a flash (hate using it)
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