by Tringa » Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:24 am
Lyme Disease can be very serious but fortunately it appears IMO to be relatively uncommon, when you consider the number of people who get ticks(though it could be that more people are tick aware and therefore deal with the ticks before the infection spreads).
I agree with Earthdragon's comment about the LifeSystems tweezers. They are excellent.
There do, however, seem to be more ticks than years ago. In the last week Mrs Tringa has had about ten and that is only from working in the garden, but the garden is frequented by pine marten, badger and roe deer.
Mrs T appears to be a magnet for ticks(I've had only two in the same period) but is also someone who is irritated by them and feels them crawling before they attach, so four of the ten were removed easily, for the others the tweezers did the job.
All of the ticks were VERY small nymphs.
Dave