Our most dangerous wildlife is back in numbers: #ticks.

Just found one on my leg. Probably picked up on yesterday's walk in the woods. It's a tiny nymph and while I spotted two others these are easy to miss.

The hazard is in the disease they carry. In our region (northern Europe, Denmark) primarily Lyme disease, transferred via bites.

Anyway. #PSA: check for ticks and take them off properly. For a week after check for the telltale Lyme rash (an expanding red circle ANYWHERE on your body).

@Pepijn I hate ticks. Hope you are fine

@ruari Am fine. Just want to eradicate all ticks and their bacteria / virus friends*.

*yeah yeah, everything has an ecosystem value etc etc. That said, Ticks seem to be the Segway-running-on-Windows-Vista-while-the-droid-is-wearing-Google-Glass-connected-to-an-Amazon-Fire-phone of the animal world.

@Pepijn I am all on yourside and against ticks!

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https://velocipederider.com/@ruari/108969742391570304

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