i live in a tropic place. whenever i see tourist admiring an open door hotel in bali, all i think about is the million of undocumented species crawling in your bed sheet and mosquitoes buzzing all night long
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last time i did that i just got covered in snails
god i wish i had snails. all i ever see here is slugs. homeless snails :(
What the fuck is the green thing on your leg? Carpet padding?
I thought it was green painters tape wrapped sticky side out. Almost as if this masochist wanted to see ALL THE TICKS.
Well, if you're not seeing the ticks, they're already biting you.
Some plants have seeds with little hooks to be disseminated by animals, that must be this.
Nope, it's tape wrapped around the ankles to stop ticks from crawling up your leg.
Around here you'd just be covered in these little fuckers

NE near coastal fresh wetlands of the US are absolutely crawling in ticks. Ughhhhhhh. Nature has rejected us.
Apparently turkeys eat ticks. We just need to keep the wild turkey population up and they'll help cull the infestation.
Sorry, the only species we'll conserve are bloodsucking insects and jellyfish.
Just FYI, you can vaccinate yourself against ticks these days.
Still don't want them on me, but at least you don't have to worry about borrelia
I envy people whose problem with ticks is borreliosis.
Ours have the fun stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis
Luckily, there also a vaccine against that. So I'll expand the PSA to that (especially for those that moved here from abroad)
Moved where ?
Central and eastern Europe. The Wikipedia article has a map.
Although you should always check the official vaccine recommendations of your country/area, like this one for Germany
The vaccine only has a 80 % efficacy. Don't go around getting ticks just because you get vaccinated.
Goddamn… no… NO!
We need to cull the deer and stop burning fossile fuels.
You can't spell sticky without...
Deet works just fine.
I wonder if an adhesive was involved in collecting so many lil ticklers.
Gun to my head I'd have to call those shoes hiking loafers. (paradox)

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