Tick egg clusters, or nests, look like fish eggs or masses of brown orbs along the forest floor. "Unfed ticks are tiny, resembling freckles or moles on the skin, while fully fed ticks can swell up ...

Female ticks lay eggs around January, and sometimes a month either side, depending on how warm it is. "The intensity of the tick paralysis season is all about the weather," Professor Barker said.

Of these the most lethal are ticks and worms. Today I will focus on ticks. Tick eggs that were on the ground hatch at the onset of rains. They are notorious for transmitting various diseases that ...