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CitrusPrime
I can get behind this citrus fruit-related humor.
cousac
And this comment is sublime
whocanPelican
Curse those damned deer ticks. They infected my dog!
modicumjones
Citrus Greening Disease is no laughing matter! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease
IOnlyUseHashtagsSarcastically
As someone who has chronic lyme, it really sucks. Pun intended.
CassandraCurieux
My best friend has Lyme I can't imagine :(
Ladymeowsalot
My mom got diagnosed with chronic Lyme last year. She's wondering if she has had it since childhood :/ How you holding up?
ErwinHeisenberg
I had lyme and I was taught by my doctors that chronic lyme isnt a thing... What are the symptoms you experiencing?
callmethelizardqueen
Good luck with that. Glad I'm in Az where that shit doesn't happen.
duz3
I have never heard of this but I looked it up and I live in the one state that doesn't have Lyme disease. Yea!
yayanavailableusername
Is it bad I didn't even question the fact he had a lemon for a head.
spicesniffer
How can you hike in shorts !?
candyman106
I don't care how hot it is, if you're in long grass you gotta have pants you can tuck into your socks so the ticks can't get to your legs.
Entourage
+1 for any awareness on this disease. It's tragic and hardly anyone talks about it.
CaffeineForBlood
Superslothsays
Unacceptabllllleeeeeee
TheHengeProphet
He'll be SPRITEly in a few days.
omegafurfag
and thus why I never walk around in anything less than jeans and a coat.
itisanimgurnaccount
My friend have I told you about bedbugs? Coz bedbugs.
Uthinkuknow
Found a dead one in my nose a week ago..I'm waiting for the babies to imgur
thatsaweirddog
#notallticks carry Lyme.
sokoloko93
Lyme disease aint no joke. Shit will melt your brain.
therealmulva
PSA: If you find one, keep it and take it to your doctor.
SovietRusalka
Wait for real?
diabolicalpenguinarmyoverulesallupvotes
i always clench closed my pant legs and always wear a hat. Those things drop from trees or crawl up your foot. Summer is short hair season.
Stoltzy17
I've had a lot of personal experience with it and it can mess up your life if not caught early enough and treated properly
Teas
I got lyme disease AND beaver fever after falling out of a boat into a lake full of beavers in a forest infested with mosquitoes.
TheHaloFollower
Boy Scouts got me to not be afraid of many things, but ticks.... they'll give you the wibboy jibblies
LoneWanderer101
Ticks bother me. They are creepy in a normal state and disgusting when engorged. Fuck. Ticks.
ZeroZeta
That's why I wear pants.
dubone99
This is terrifying
grimoirine
I guess he was soured on the whole experience
HolyOldMackinaw
As someone who works in the outdoors, treating clothes with permethrin works really well, never got a tick since started using it
cityofthefireflies
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wildcatfan4life
I'm working at a summer camp this year and they said to buy at least two bottles of permethrin. I never heard of it, whats a good brand?
HolyOldMackinaw
I think sawyer is the biggest brand. You treat your clothes with it and then it lasts for 6 washes I think. I treat my socks, pants, and 1/2
HolyOldMackinaw
Shirt. Then I also spray a DEET bug spray on all my clothes and a hat. Don't even bother with "natural" sprays, personal experience and
HolyOldMackinaw
Research shows they only work for about 5 minutes. You have to keep spraying yourself constantly and still get bit a ton
Automatvapen
Permethrin is highly toxic for animals living in water. It has been banned in Sweden since 2012 for instance.
HolyOldMackinaw
That's why you apply it to clothes and don't spray it in water
Automatvapen
And what happens when you go through water, when it rains, just moving around? That stuff doesn't magically stay on your clothes forever.
HolyOldMackinaw
1/2 It actually binds to your clothing. It's agitation in the washing mashing that dislodges it over many washes, not because it's soluble.
MediocreExtremist
I don't care much about the ticks but fear all the dirty diseases they -and other insects carry.
woofpanda
Ticks aint insects homie.
Shoelebubba
Yeah I don't think anyone's afraid of ticks or mosquitos. It's the shit they inject when they feed on you that's pure terror.
LooseyGooseyBrett
Well, duh.
ChaoticNeutralNecromancer
I have lyme disease and recently discovered that it is the cause of my depression. attacking the nerves and all...
magundi
...& your brain, stomach, heart, etc. and sometimes the test results come back false negative. Keep testing if you have symptoms.
someONEgood
Have they come up with better detection methods? Always heard it was hard to detect.
magundi
Lots of false negatives, so people don't get antibiotics soon enough. Also, there are several similar diseases carried by the same tick. 1/2
magundi
So the doctor should do a multi-point test to rule them all out.
tantricpooper
I fear nothing on this planet, except ticks.
Smozzerz
And wasps
HeaveninaWildFlower
My mum is allergic to red meat thanks to ticks. This fact alone is terrifying.
drhook
Bears?
Thule
When I did my military service I got 5 per week. The first ones freaked me out but then meh. Until I got one on my ballsack, unpleasant.
Thule
Well, about 5 per week during the summer months.
bepadapbadabop
Right now I'm terrified of ticks. I have an auto immune disease and am going to Massachusetts this summer. Terrified of getting a tick bite.
Fondlerofthings
You have nothing to be afraid of, except Super Aids
ZiziCureEarth
Me too
copingcabana
You've never been to Australia, then? Or r/spacedicks for that matter.
ignimbrite
I live in Australia. I fear ticks more than I do pretty much everything else on the continent. Ticks are not to be fucked with.
Sc00ba5teeve
And leeches: the ticks of the swamp.
ohijustcantwaittobeking
I can do ticks. Leeches fuck me up
Strostkovy
I plucked a leech off my arm and stalked it for like 80 feet underwater. They swim weird.
YouCheckedTheUsernameDidntYou
WHAT ARE THEY DOING IN MAY SWAMP - Shrek propably
BartimaeusTheFat
I don't mind leeches as much, they're easier to kill
jdubbs73
i have an irrational fear of sharks where ever I go
YouWOULDsaythat
My friend 3D printed a tick key for me while I drank his homemade hard cider. If that is not an option, you can buy both.
MyCatLikesToFruitcake
I grew up in the south, nothing like walking through the woods, look down and see sea ticks on your leg. Size of a pin and about 100+.
MyCatLikesToFruitcake
Ah, "seed ticks". Heres a picture: http://mayalassiter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ticks-3.jpg
SpiceyBoi
I'm absolutely terrified of Africanized honey bees.
Atria
Shit's scary to
Atria
*yo
Nipplebuttsalad
Wow, racist
forgetthisnoise
I had a tick last weekend first time in three years I was out in the wild and probably the fucking last. IT WAS IN MY SKIN. NOOOO
Rayner99er
Just had to pick a tick off my cat earlier. Disgusting shit
Caritien
not even bed bugs? imo they're worst.
JenRL
You are my people. I feel the same way. Winter is great cause the snow and cold allow me to lie on the ground without fearing a tick.
alekazam13
and Mosquitoes
Junktrunkjunkie
Nothing but ticks huh? bedbugs? lice? Bird eating spiders? Goblin sharks? Cancrum Oris? Flirarial worms? get falsely accused of pedophilia?
ignimbrite
None of those bother me as much as Guinea worms, which are on some sort of hell above ticks.
Junktrunkjunkie
Yeah ok Guinea worms are pretty bad. But Flirarial worms are like that but it's in your eye. And Cancrum Oris... don't google it. Nightmares
ignimbrite
Ticks, irukandji, prion disease and aneurysms for me.
Aquagrunt
I got Lyme disease from a tick when I was just a kid, that was when I learned that pills are swallowed, not chewed.
zma123456
Had one stuck to my back for few days. Now after every hike I make sure I got no ticks.
Jreami
I live in a forest in Ga and they are EVERYWHERE. The babies are the ones you need to be alert about, they are microscopic. My nut sack
Jreami
gains several new freckles with every outdoor jog.
SuperBobKing
Wear clothes maybe?
Jreami
No.
NZSheeps
As a NZer (where the worst animal you likely to meet is a bad tempered sheep) what is the problem with ticks? What disease do they carry?
NotAMeatPopsicle
Lyme diesease seriously screws with your whole body and is not fully accepted by doctor as real despite research.
LordCastellanCreedtheSupremeCommanderofCadia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_Lyme_disease
tantricpooper
My biggest fear is a disease they carry which can make you meat intolerant. No. More. Meat. Ever.
NZSheeps
So vegetarianism is a disease? I knew it!
BlueandBlue
but can cause widely varying and dramatic effects if not caught.
BlueandBlue
https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/diseases/ a lot of them actually, but the most commonly discussed is Lyme disease.
NZSheeps
Suddenly the cartoon makes more sense. Thank you random Imgurer.
BlueandBlue
Lyme is interesting because it can be almost harmless iF caught early and treated with antibiotics, (1/2)
Awesummzz
All sorts of shit. They drink blood from variois animals so it can carry almost anything
NZSheeps
So basically flightless mosquitoes?
dangerkitty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sheep_(2006_New_Zealand_film)
NZSheeps
Who needs fiction when we have Rambro http://imgur.com/lDNRVos (yes, that is a 6 tonne digger).
dangerkitty
Oh New Zealand. You're like the Oceanic Canada. <3