Its very woodsy here in the South and Ive been finding their corpses laying ontop of my covers in the morning.
I happen to have been taking Ivermectin horsepaste for the past 2 weeks and I'm pretty sure they're dying when they bite me. Also, their bites end up being no more than a red dot. No infection, no itch, nothing. They used to turn into painful, solid, infected knots that would last 3 months or more.
Ivermectin appears to kill the original perp, then kills the parasites and viruses they pass on to you.
Its a good pre-emptive measure that I have now seen real-world results with my own eyes.
I have read that if you pick up a tick in the woods, it takes a few hours for it to find a suitable place to latch onto you. If you shower off immediately after coming out of the woods, you'll do better than if you wait awhile. The hardest ones to see are the little "seed ticks"...mere hatchlings that are almost invisible to the naked eye.
Those seed ticks somehow always find their way to my ballsack when im in the woods...
Seed ticks like ballsacks. Their name checks out.
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