Last Saturday I ventured into the Aussie bush

[Bretrick]

Walking through the sometimes thick bush.
Last night I felt a bump on the back of my thigh. Turns out a tick had buried it’s head into me.
Ticks here in Western Australia are not very harmful to humans.
Western Australian ticks are predominately the common Ornate kangaroo tick.
Not dangerous to humans though at rare times infection may occur at the bite site.
I simply ripped it off, no doubt leaving it’s head in my thigh. This will eventually be expelled.
The bacteria that causes Lyme disease has not been found in Australian ticks so most likely Bretrick will suffer no ill effect from that pesky pest that had it’s last meal courtesy of moir.
Not my photo

 

[Warrigal]

That'll lern yar to tuck yar trousers inside yar thick woolly socks.

I've never had a tick bite but I did once remove 15 from a blue tongue lizard that a student had brought to school. They had attached under the scales. The lizard was apparently immune to tick bites.

 

[oscash]

Walking through the sometimes thick bush.
Last night I felt a bump on the back of my thigh. Turns out a tick had buried it’s head into me.
Ticks here in Western Australia are not very harmful to humans.
Western Australian ticks are predominately the common Ornate kangaroo tick.
Not dangerous to humans though at rare times infection may occur at the bite site.
I simply ripped it off, no doubt leaving it’s head in my thigh. This will eventually be expelled.
The bacteria that causes Lyme disease has not been found in Australian ticks so most likely Bretrick will suffer no ill effect from that pesky pest that had it’s last meal courtesy of moir.
Not my photo

Here in Sydney we were up in the northern beaches walking through the bushes. All good. A few days later I was brushing my young son's
hair when we said it was hurting. I had a closer look when I saw a large lump with a yellow head. I immediately took him to the hospital
where they said it was a tick. They said not to try and pull it out because the head could remain and will keep injecting poison into the wound.
The doctor got some kerosene and dabbed it on the lump and immediately the tick backed out and died. They can be very dangerous and have been known to kill cats and dogs.

 

[Bella]

Ick a tick!

When I was little, I went to summer camp, and frequently we'd go for a walk in the woods. One day after I got home, I was in the bathroom and looked down at my leg. That day, they served chocolate pudding for dessert, and I thought I'd dropped a spot of it on my leg, and it had dried there. I went to remove it, and it moved! I was horrified and let out a bloodcurdling scream. My mother came running and promptly removed the tick.

I live in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, and Lyme disease is a problem. Whenever I need to work outdoors, I'm covered from head to toe.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Living here in Atlan-tick area we are exposed to very dangerous ticks. They carry Lyme disease. I’ve never personally had a tick but my husband has had 3 of them. I pulled one off his back. Our dogs are given tick repellent once a month which works very well.

 

[squatting dog]

 

[Imogene]

I know this thread is five weeks old but I feel some clarification may be in order

The tick photo posted by @Bretrick is a female Lone Star tick found primarily in the SE United States.

To date studies have shown this particular tick does NOT carry Lymes but they can carry erlichiosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

About Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness.

The SE United States also has deer ticks, which, if you google them are even uglier.

Deer ticks DO carry Lymes disease.

2. I deal with both these ticks almost daily, almost annually because ticks DO NOT DIE when the weather gets cold. They simply burrow deeper into the ground.

3. My husband was a tick magnate. I swear they were waiting for him on the garage apron every day. I wear shorts and a tank top until we get close to freezing temps and I might see half dozen ticks on myself in an entire year.

My horses are the same - some are tick magnates, some are not. My horse who lived his entire life in SoCal had such a bad allergic reaction to a tick bite that it cost me a vet bill.

I put him on processed garlic powder as it is 80% effective in killing ticks.

I keep my dogs on Advantix II because it’s about the only topical works where I live.

4. While covering head to toe is certainly advocated, there is no way this side of Hades and back I will do that. I will spray myself with “Deep Woods Off” first. I also wrap my head and wear a hatwhen I have to mow under the pine and cedar trees because ticks LOVE pine and cedar trees.

I hope this is somewhat helpful.