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"Tick Tuesday": suggestions and methods for avoiding ticks

By Editorial Board Published June 3, 2025 2 Min Read
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"Tick Tuesday": suggestions and methods for avoiding ticks

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Though it could look like tick season is upon us together with the summer time temperatures, the pests are viable year-round with the hotter Michigan winters. Meaning everybody wants to stay vigilant, for themselves in addition to their pets.

Whereas evolutionarily each creature presumably has a job within the ecosystem, ticks are pests whose use hasn’t been decided but apart from serving as a meals supply.

There may be lots of incorrect info obtainable about how one can keep away from and take away ticks. Dr. Jean Tsao, Professor within the Division of Fisheries & Wildlife and Division of Massive Animal Medical Sciences at MSU, and analysis technician Erin Henthorn stuffed within the gaps and corrected misinformation.

Tips about how one can keep secure throughout tick season. (WLNS)IMG 8171IMG 8172IMG 8174

Delusion 1: Ticks fall from bushes. Actuality: Nope, they do not bounce or toss themselves off a department. They’re higher present in floor cowl and leaves.

Delusion 2: Twisting or burning a tick is the easiest way to take away it. Actuality: The most secure approach to dislodge a tick is to make use of tweezers or one other tick elimination implement that is appropriately sized to the tick, permitting it to get all the way down to the pest’s head and pull it straight up.

Delusion 3: Flush the tick as soon as it is eliminated. Actuality: Save the tick and ship a photograph of its physique in for evaluation, by way of MSU’s app or different authorised supply, just like the Michigan well being division. Not all ticks carry Lyme illness, and the authorities can decide if antibiotics are wanted and, in that case, what sort.

Pets must be on preventive medicines, the kind of which might be greatest suggested by veterinarians.

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