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Originally Posted by Dan4570
All in all, very surprised about the bites from the larvae. I've never had one bite me and I always assumed they were too small to penetrate human skin. Hence why they have a life cycle of attaching to different hosts (mice/birds, then on to larger creatures when they evolve to nymph and then adult) they don't attach for life. They drop off a host every year to lay eggs. And male ticks don't pass lymes or feed on your blood(same as misquitoes).
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It doesn’t work like that with these ticks. They are single host ticks, usually moose, to a lesser extent elk, and even less deer. They literally hatch, climb up the vegetation, grab on to a moose and spend their childhood, teenage years, and adulthood, lol, on one single animal. They fall off that animal mid spring, females lay eggs in early-mid summer, eggs hatch late summer, and so on. Hence, why these particular ticks do not carry any disease they can pass on to us. I was their first meal, for those that managed to bite me. The upside is that I was their last too, in all likelihood, lol.
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Originally Posted by Dan4570
Most people I talk to, say they've never seen a tick.. but you can't get ticks hunting from the truck 🤣🤣
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Lol.