BEWARE OF TICKS!

foofoo

Explorer
Sep 14, 2003
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went exploring saturday and picked up quite a few. i do like them better than chiggers though :party:
 

bobpbx

Piney
Staff member
Oct 25, 2002
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Pines; Bamber area
I pulled about 20 off my pants after a short run in the woods across from Bamber Firehouse. I took one home and looked at it under the stereo microscope I got for Christmas. The probe they stick in us looks painful just looking at it. It is not sharp like a needle, looks more bulbous on the end with small raised ridges that appear to be made to gouge and tear your cells......... :(


Their body is very chitinous. I peirced it with a small blunt nail in several areas. Even though its body fluids were oozing out, he just kept coming, trying to get out of the petri dish I had him in.

I then covered him with an alcohol and soapy mixture. He still squirmed around for 5 minutes before finally succumbing to the lack of oxygen.

They are truly disgusting, resilent, dangerous creatures.
 
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