Swoboda Posts Tagged ‘tick disease’
Trying to choose three insects that spread disease is not difficult. The hardest part is choosing those three out of a very long list of pests that cause incredibly powerful diseases. Ticks Ticks can cause many diseases, but perhaps the most widely distributed disease caused by ticks is Lyme Disease. Lyme disease causes inflammation and […]
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 […]
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. […]
