Folk wisdom holds that ticks fall out of trees onto people - this is wrong. Ticks cannot jump, fly, or drop from height; they quest on grasses and low shrubs and brush onto a passing host. A tick found in your hair almost certainly climbed there from your collar.
Hard ticks find hosts by questing: climbing onto grass blades or low vegetation, anchoring with the back legs, and waving the front legs…
Questing hard ticks always climb upward when they catch a host. After they latch onto a pant leg they crawl steadily up until they reach…
Ticks are arachnids, not insects - close cousins of spiders and scorpions, with eight legs as adults and two body regions instead of…
Folk remedies for backing out an attached tick - lit matches, nail polish, petroleum jelly, essential oils - all do the same wrong thing:…
An unattached tick can crawl on a person for hours before biting. CDC's two-hour shower rule is based on field studies showing that…
A removed tick is not biologically dead the moment you take it out - it can survive in a sealed container for weeks. CDC recommends…