Re: RC: Dropping Ticks!

[Nancy DuPont <Htrails@Earthlink.net>]

This sounds like a Gary Larsen cartoon! Waiting in the trees for
unsuspecting victims.  Why did a Mt. Diablo State Park Ranger tell me they
climb up from the grass and do not drop from trees? If this is true, how do
they lodge in our heads, just at the base of our necks?

At 06:03 PM 5/15/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 5/15/99 11:55:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, toppere@siu.edu 
>writes:
>
><<  when I take the horses
> to any of the state parks I go really fast when you start to hear the ticks
> fall. They are in the trees here. >>
>
>Ahhh yes, the elusive Cougar Tick.  Here in California they are huge and make 
>a loud noise when they drop off the trees in search of their prey.  They have 
>been known to carry off small children who were left unattended in ridecamps 
>(probably nabbed a few of those loose dogs too).  The Cougar Tick is the main 
>reason most Californians wear helmets.  We used to have thousands of naked 
>hikers, but the Cougar Tick has effectively "nipped that problem in the bud" 
>(so to speak).  They  are particularly aggressive during mating season (I'd 
>better stop now).
>
>Sylvia (sorry, couldn't resist this one)
>
>
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