05-13-2006, 05:10 PM
I doubt the tick "jumped".
Either a more sensitive section of your skin was trod upon,
Fell,
stepped off your shirt or hair onto your skin,
or, more likely, was walking around and what you felt was the tick beginning to burrow into your skin for some blood. Most people don't even feel that.
They tend to crawl out onto the very tip of plants and branches waiting for a warm blooded animal to brush a branch.
Usually at sock/shoe level. Same height as small animals legs.
They then instinctively crawl up to a safe spot where they won't likely be brushed off again.
They tend to end up/be found on the back of the neck or behind the ears.
On people they can tend to burrow way into the skin. Trying to pull it out usually leaves the head, which can cause a nasty infection. A flame and sometimes alcohol will get them to try to back out/escape.
And yeah, you really should burn them. Crush often just wounds their blood sack, they'll crawl right back out of the toilet/drain.
Be thankful it was a big tick and not a deer tick. Deer ticks are the size of a pencil point.
Or, the size of these periods .......
In some areas they are infected with/carry Lyme Disease.
Either a more sensitive section of your skin was trod upon,
Fell,
stepped off your shirt or hair onto your skin,
or, more likely, was walking around and what you felt was the tick beginning to burrow into your skin for some blood. Most people don't even feel that.
They tend to crawl out onto the very tip of plants and branches waiting for a warm blooded animal to brush a branch.
Usually at sock/shoe level. Same height as small animals legs.
They then instinctively crawl up to a safe spot where they won't likely be brushed off again.
They tend to end up/be found on the back of the neck or behind the ears.
On people they can tend to burrow way into the skin. Trying to pull it out usually leaves the head, which can cause a nasty infection. A flame and sometimes alcohol will get them to try to back out/escape.
And yeah, you really should burn them. Crush often just wounds their blood sack, they'll crawl right back out of the toilet/drain.
Be thankful it was a big tick and not a deer tick. Deer ticks are the size of a pencil point.
Or, the size of these periods .......
In some areas they are infected with/carry Lyme Disease.