![Photo of a small tick on the back of its mother [assumed] tick on the end of a plant's stem. Photo by Angelino Desmet; https://www.smetterling.eu](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f3f3db47-c98f-4990-b4fa-db5b05ee2db2.jpeg "Photo of a small tick on the back of its mother [assumed] tick on the end of a plant's stem. Photo by Angelino Desmet; https://www.smetterling.eu")
Tick season is in. Careful all you forest bathers. Could find dozens if not hundreds of them yesterday, located on the end of plant stems on the edges of dirt paths.
They idle like this:
They open their front legs when they sense movement, i.e., potential hosts to latch on to:
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They can carry Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever which kills anywhere from 1/8 to 1/4 of people who contract it.