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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Depends where you live

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

Just FYI, you can vaccinate yourself against ticks these days.

Still don't want them on me, but at least you don't have to worry about borrelia

[–] qualia@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I wonder if an adhesive was involved in collecting so many lil ticklers.

Gun to my head I'd have to call those shoes hiking loafers. (paradox)

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 7 hours ago

Self immolation. It's the only way to be sure.

[–] wopalopa@lemmy.world 52 points 15 hours ago

i live in a tropic place. whenever i see tourist admiring an open door hotel in bali, all i think about is the million of undocumented species crawling in your bed sheet and mosquitoes buzzing all night long

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 30 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

What the fuck is the green thing on your leg? Carpet padding?

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 44 points 15 hours ago

Tape but sticky side out

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was green painters tape wrapped sticky side out. Almost as if this masochist wanted to see ALL THE TICKS.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well, if you're not seeing the ticks, they're already biting you.

[–] ascend@lemmy.radio 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Its OK, they just find a home in your butthole

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 7 hours ago

That happened to my mate lmao

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 5 points 16 hours ago

Pair of green elasticated trousers?

[–] SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Some plants have seeds with little hooks to be disseminated by animals, that must be this.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Nope, it's tape wrapped around the ankles to stop ticks from crawling up your leg.

[–] SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 14 hours ago

Aye, I got mixed up in the comments, genealogy, the seeds I talk about are in another comment to which I thought the parent comment was replying...

[–] lime@feddit.nu 32 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

last time i did that i just got covered in snails

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 36 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

god i wish i had snails. all i ever see here is slugs. homeless snails :(

[–] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago

Slugs will evolve into snails with a moon stone lol.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Convertible snails

[–] puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 16 hours ago

get those snails a house!

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 13 hours ago

Well as long as it's not THE snail.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 14 hours ago

Grass snails?

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Around here you'd just be covered in these little fuckers

Image

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 9 points 14 hours ago

Around here you get both. Lots and lots of both...

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

NE near coastal fresh wetlands of the US are absolutely crawling in ticks. Ughhhhhhh. Nature has rejected us.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently turkeys eat ticks. We just need to keep the wild turkey population up and they'll help cull the infestation.

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Possums do too! And they're immune to rabies. Awesome little cute scary looking creatures.

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Opossums don't really eat ticks. The 'study' that said that was pretty bad science. If I stuck you in a room with nothing but dog food for a while, and then said that humans eat dog food at X rate, would you consider it a true statement?

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Interesting. I wasn't aware of the controversy around that assertion. The 2021 study doesn't necessarily seem entirely definitive either in my opinion, the total absence of ticks in the stomach contents despite the presence of many other insects seems suspicious, and they only examined 32 possums from a single area. Nonetheless you're right, the other study doesn't seem to have had the best methodology. I'd like to see more information but a search really only turns up those two studies and a bunch of shitty articles on them.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You can't spell sticky without...

[–] derry@midwest.social 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Icky? Ick? Sick? Don't leave us hanging

[–] WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Also you’re supposed to tuck your pants into your socks

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 11 hours ago

Kevlar socks, ideally.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We need to cull the deer and stop burning fossile fuels.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Agent orange the forests and ban sucking blood

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 7 points 14 hours ago

Drain the swamp! Oops, wrong Agent orange.

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 3 points 16 hours ago

Deet works just fine.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 15 hours ago

melon ass pant