Colin PurringtonNeed a tick identified? Send dorsal and ventral pics to The Tick Lab of Pennsylvania, and they'll email you back with an answer. #tick #ticks #disease #health https://www.ticklab.org/identify-my-tick
The Tick Lab of Pennsylvania offers free testing to residents of the Commonwealth. You can send up to five ticks taken off the host (person or pet). #pennsylvania #ticks #lyme #disease #health #outdoors #hiking https://www.ticklab.org/test-my-tick
Article on some of the important tick species in the United States, with a reminder that they sometimes harbor more than one disease. So even if you test positive for Lyme you might also have an undiagnosed, second illness. [gift link] #ticks #disease #nature #lyme #alphagal #health #ixodidae https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/well/live/tick-bites-diseases-symptoms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gVA.4XTu.Gu4hPsw1SpEv&smid=url-share
Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada [Unofficial]Tick season returns to Saskatchewan
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11828409/tick-season-saskatchewan/
Brian HarperWell I found out I have Lyme Disease an hour ago. Just what I wanted for summer. Made it almost 50 years of outdoor living avoiding it to get struck down now.
Watch out for ticks everyone.
Benita SkinnerLiving in a forest, in #NovaScotia isn’t glamorous. 😂
For example, I know to watch for #ticks - especially on things I’ve recently touched or been near.
This is how many (9) I found, since yesterday, hanging on my door knob, door frame, pail handles & plant pot edges. 🥴
Thankfully none were the black-legged variety, which cause #limedisease …
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BewilderedKat 
PSA: Remember to check yourself for ticks regularly!
You can get them spending time outdoors.
If you have pets, they can carry some in from the outdoors. I've seen ticks do their seeking thing from a dog's back because they were more interested in finding something with thinner or no fur.
#CW picture of a tick
Did you know ticks aren't insects? They are arachnids!
Yesterday, I removed this one from just above my popliteal fossa (back of the knee). Usually I use some thread in a loop but it was in a really unfortunate spot and made it quite challenging. I did eventually use fine tipped tweezers to gently remove it. You can see its mouth parts still intact.
I usually tuck my pants into my socks when walking outside, but sometimes I forget to do it before leaving the house and then do it mid walk. And sometimes my dogs act as unwitting transport carriers. They are on tick preventatives, and I do check them for ticks routinely.
This tick was clearly an adventurer, until it took an aro in the knee.
The Orkney News [Unofficial]Tick Alert – check for bites as outdoor season begins.
Neil ShooterThe Hollow Promise of Summer
I’m struggling, and I don’t know what I can do about it medium.com/@nshooter11/...
#nature #struggle #mentalhealth #memoir #personal #ticks #chickens
The Hollow Promise of Summer
The Hollow Promise of Summer
Bich Nguyen"The CDC’s tracking system shows that weekly rates of ER visits for tick bites are the highest for this time of year since 2017. That’s true in all regions of the country, except the south-central United States.
About 85% of U.S. hospital emergency departments send data to the surveillance system, but it doesn’t capture people who didn’t go to a hospital."
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-tick-season-fast-start-ff8499dbf23d9c61c0d5c07b259987d1
#PublicHealth #ticks #EmergencyMed #hospitals #outdoors #nature
Tick season seems to be off to a fast start
Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country. Some U.S. doctors are worried about the potential for a bad year for tick-borne diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an early advisory to the public this week to guard against ticks.