Swoboda Posts Tagged ‘tick bites’
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 […]
Lyme Disease is a caused by bacteria – a pathogen – that lives in the saliva of the black legged tick. As of 2016 there have been only eight confirmed cases of Lyme disease reported by officials in Brazos County. That number might seem small, but it is a red flag warning for many reasons. […]
