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Tick season is in. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by arsCynic@piefed.social to c/photography@lemmy.world

Tick season is in. Careful all you forest bathers. Could find dozens if not hundreds of them yesterday, located on the end of plant stems on the edges of dirt paths.

They idle like this:
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They open their front legs when they sense movement, i.e., potential hosts to latch on to:
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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

The only creature I despise more than mosquitoes. I love living in NJ but the ubiquity of both drives me nuts

[-] arsCynic@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Worse than the mosquito sound?

this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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