Instead of soft bellies, we get scutums! Instead of nights, we get days! It's a hard-shelled life for us! Hey everyone, Tattle the Tick here, ready to drop some knowledge on you guys. Today I'm going to tell you about the other family of ticks: Argasidae, otherwise known as the soft-shelled ticks. Soft-shelled ticks are [...]
Good morning readers, Boy do I have a story for you. This past May, I went down to Tennessee to visit some friends and I had the opportunity to meet the infamous Asian longhorned tick. I got the chance to meet a couple hundred of them while I was looking for a meal. They like [...]
Hello my delicious human readers, Now most of you are smart enough that you avoid ticks like me. However, there are some humans, "entomologists" they call themselves, who purposely go out searching for ticks. I am not complaining, they make my job of finding a host easy! So for this week's blog I thought we [...]
Ughh! I can't believe I have to deal with this on my day off. I decided to treat myself to a nice dinner while on vacation, where the weather is nice, the ticks are cute, and everyone is as friendly as can be. Yet, when the waiter brought me my meal it was contaminated with [...]
Hey everyone, Being related to a bunch of ticks can make party planning hard. Take my relative, the Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum) for example. I wanted to throw a big, summer BBQ bash and I find out that they can cause "Red Meat Allergy"?!?!?! Image depicts rising IgE levels in a human [...]
Hello everyone!!! I have decided to take a break from blood sucking and career shift into a new adventure. I am excited to be bringing you up-to-date news on tick activity occurring in Illinois. The people here at I-TICK have been wonderful to me (I mean, they haven't drowned me in ethanol yet)... But anywho, [...]
