Swoboda Posts Tagged ‘Lyme Disease’
These reddish ticks have what appears to be a black shield on their back. Like all ticks, they have eight legs and two body parts, making them an arachnid – in the same general family as spiders. Mites and scorpions are also arachnids. The blacklegged deer tick is one of the ticks that spread Lyme […]
Welcome to Tick Season In Brazos County Texas
Late Spring and early summer are prime times to encounter ticks. Tick eggs hatch early, and the instars that hatch are hungry. Because ticks have an incomplete life cycle, the instars shed their exoskeleton as they grow. For that reason, you don’t see adult ticks in early Spring unless they managed to overwinter. Most die […]
