Where and why there is danger
A tick that has access to food and is not injured can last for up to three years. The normal life span is several weeks. Without food, some of these parasites can survive even a year.
A female tick can handle up to 3,000 eggs.
Each individual goes through 4 phases of the development cycle. The egg becomes a larva, later becomes a nymph and the final stage is an adult male or female.
Adult ticks that are shed on humans are females. The males have no blood.
Ticks can attack even in cold months if there is warmer winter. They themselves are not automatically carriers of infectious diseases. Bearers will only get to the point when they get to the infected host and then pass the infection.
The stall can take a long time
Ticks choose their victim according to their breath, body temperature and smell. They do not fly or jump. They mostly get by just moving from grass or other low vegetation. And how does the sneaking itself happen?
Saliva ticks act as an adhesive, which makes the parasite more comfortable on the skin . In addition, they contain special substances that die instead of squeezing to make the bite feel.
After anchoring in the tick skin, the blood sheds from 10 minutes to several hours.
These creatures are very fond of such places on the human body, where they are warm and where they can undisturbed their feast. These include the armpits, the underbelly, the groin or the area behind the ears.
What you may have no idea
Ticks are animals of the age 120 million years old.
If you keep a dog and a cat outdoors outside the house, the ticker will always pick a dog for the sipping.
These creatures are often classified as insects, but with their eight legs they are related to spiders.
There are over 800 species of these parasites in the world.
The size of the ticks is very diverse - the smallest ones are like poppy seeds, the fully sucked individual can be large almost like a nail.
Source: Klíšťová encefalitida.cz