Get Ready for Another Summer of Out-of-Control Ticks

The eight-legged tick is America s most dangerous pest bug, based on the amount of human illness it causes every year. An estimated 300,000 people in the U.S. catch tickborne diseases annually, largely from the bacteria that causes Lyme disease and is spread through a female tick s bloodsucking bite.

Frustratingly, a warmer climate has expanded the range of species like the blacklegged tick, also known as the deer tick. Whereas Lyme was once found mostly in parts of the Northeast, it s now regularly showing up in half the country and may even have reached all of the continental U.S. in small numbers. If that isn t bad enough, we re still discovering new tickborne diseases and troublesome, invasive new tick species.

via gizmodo.com

I hate ticks.