All I have to say is “Yikes!” And click here if you want to know “How a Tick Smells You Coming.”
Maybe they’re gone…who knows? I guess we’ll find out…
In the summer of 2017, specimens of an “unusual-looking” tick were reported to public health officials in New Jersey, and they were later determined to be a species, Haemaphysalis longicornis, from the other side of the world. No established population of the species, native to Asia, had ever been previously documented in the United States.
When the researchers visited the New Jersey property, “the ticks in the paddock were so numerous that they crawled on investigators’ pants soon after setting foot inside” and “the sheep was supporting hundreds of ticks, including all three active life stages,” according to their report.
