How to Avoid Tick Bite Attacks

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Many tick species need a blood meal to get to its next life stage, kind of like a video game, leveling up. Ticks can get engorged with your blood 200 to 300 times their original weight. Can you imagine what a boss you'd be if you could hose a soup plantation like that for the price of one meal? The fact that it can go undetected, particularly the adult stage ticks that are pretty large, is pretty amazing.

It’s 2-for-1! Ticks AND Lyme: together in one helpful, disgusting, gossipy, empowering

episode. This pair of episodes is about tiny, thirsty ticks and the diseases they spit into you is wall to wall wisdom from Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally of the West Connecticut State University Tick Lab and Dr. Andrea Swei of SFSU’s Swei Lab cover how to remove a tick, if you should spray your yard and with what, how landscaping affects tick exposure, why Lyme Disease is spreading, the Lone Star Tick rolling into town, how to protect your pets and why the CC ruined poppyseed muffins. Also: Powassan virus, meat allergies, paralysis ticks, and twin princesses Borrelia and Babesia.

Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally and Dr. Andrea Swei will charm their way into your heart like a hypostome under your skin.

Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally’s videos, website, Twitter and Instagram

Follow Dr. Andrea Swei and her lab SweiLab on Twitter

Donations were made to TickEncounter, Union of Concerned Scientists, and 826 Valencia