Ticks!

[worth1]

Yep a new tick from Asia.

State officials confirm first sighting of invasive, disease-carrying tick species — here's what to look for https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/as ... ma-cattle/

[Kurt]

Of everything we deal with ticks are the worst.Leeches are next.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/ ... 44265.html

[Paulf]

Hopefully those nasty ticks stay south. We have ticks in abundance here but they have not been a problem yet this year. We do have a family of Oppossums in the area and they are known to eat thousands of ticks...good for them!

[svalli]

Of everything we deal with ticks are the worst.Leeches are next.

Leeches have at least some medicinal use, but ticks are totally useless.
Luckily ticks do not have wings. It would be a nightmare if those things flew.

We have deer keds, which normally do not bite humans, but are nasty things because they crawl into hair and under clothing. They appear this time of the year and there are a lot of them. Deer keds stick into soft fabrics and one time I pulled over 100 from the lining of my husband's hunting jacket, I had to stop counting after 100. When I was a kid, we had none of those, but now these are in all wooded areas where deer and moose live.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoptena_cervi

[GoDawgs]

Thanks for the heads up. Just what we need... another tick.

[svalli]

I had to look if this is the same tick which I remembered the newspapers here warning about couple of years ago, because that tick can follow it's pray and is not just waiting for the host to walk by like many ticks do.
It seems that Hyalomma marginatum which is spreading here has not crossed the oceans.
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/disease-v ... marginatum

[worth1]

I remember growing up in the forest of south eastern Oklahoma and getting totally covered in ticks.
More ticks than mature intended.
We were constantly getting ticks off of us and the would even make into some people's homes.
You could feel them crawling on you under you clothes.
They would get in and on private places and dig in.
If that wasn't bad enough it was chiggers to deal with.
Any place there were cattle there were ticks.
Cattle ran wild in the forest.
Dogs had ticks we had ticks cats had ticks anything with blood had ticks.
Then if someone dumped a stray animal we would get fleas.
That place was a parasite paradise.
Somewhere there's a song one could write.
Living in a parasite paradise.

[Kurt]

Of everything we deal with ticks are the worst.Leeches are next.

Leeches have at least some medicinal use, but ticks are totally useless.
Luckily ticks do not have wings. It would be a nightmare if those things flew.

We have deer keds, which normally do not bite humans, but are nasty things because they crawl into hair and under clothing. They appear this time of the year and there are a lot of them. Deer keds stick into soft fabrics and one time I pulled over 100 from the lining of my husband's hunting jacket, I had to stop counting after 100. When I was a kid, we had none of those, but now these are in all wooded areas where deer and moose live.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoptena_cervi

When younger at grandmas in Bavaria the pharmacists actually hade lab grown leeches for wound care.on another note there are lab grown maggots for burn victims that will remove dead burnt skin,tissue.