How to Have a Microscope at Home

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Dr. Nita Connolly is a carapathologist in the forest, just chilling in a cauldron of knowledge. She and her family went on a backpacking trip to the CRS when they were still pretty deep in the pandemic 2021. They decided to stay at a lodge near Yosemite and relax a bit. While sitting in the outdoor hot tub with us? But Dr. Connolly was also there. And then we had a good laugh about them running into each other at a hot tub in Yosemite. If you want to check your crevices for ticks, I respect your very life cycles,. Your thirst for edgy areas alone. So leave my Edgy Areas alone.

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