Discussion on Identifying Ticks and CDC's Poppy Seed Muffin Comparison

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

This chapter explores the common misconception of identifying ticks, highlighting the confusion that arises when fully engorged ticks are mistaken for moles. The discussion covers the size and appearance of adult ticks, the difficulty in detecting nymph ticks, and references a CDC comparison using poppy seed muffins for educational purposes.

Ticks: They’re tiny. They’re thirsty. They’re drooling vectors of various illnesses and they want nothing more than to cuddle up to your darkest crevices. In the episode, learn 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. Acarologist, medical entomologist and tick expert Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally chats with me from her West Connecticut State University Tick Lab to discuss al of these things and to charm her way into your heart like a hypostome under your skin.

Follow Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally at:

Twitter.com/tickLab

Instagram.com/TickLab

Her website: wcsuticklab.com

A donation was made to TickEncounter.org

Her videos are up at SpraySafePlaySafe.org

Sponsor links: bioliteenergy.com/ologies (code: Ologies); KiwiCo.com/ologies; LinkedIn.com/Ologies; Storyworth.com/ologies

More links at alieward.com/ologies/acarology

You Are That podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/00WJ2qzCeIeetwRy23ABEZ

Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies

OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes!

Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies