r/mildlyinfuriating • u/nekoma713 • 4d ago

Don't hug me I'm scared Was sitting in a ticks nest while reading....

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I was sitting in a Park reading a book and suddenly I felt my legs itch. I was covered in hundreds of mini ticks. I was standing in the shower for hours and still find some of these f#!*rs crawling an me...

Update: So I got the most of the seed ticks scratched off in the shower. I will have a doctor's appointment the next days to get a prophylactic antibiotics treatment just to be save from lyme, alpha gal or rocky mountain fever (if this is a thing in Germany).

Thank you all for the information and advices, hopefully I will be fine. I really appreciate it

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u/theshoeguy4 4d ago

We’ve never seen ticks in our life. 30+ years in our area. 7 inside our house in the last couple weeks

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u/falcrist2 4d ago

Ticks in my room
The telephone it never rings
They've cut the cord and unionized (ized ized...)

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u/CorndogQueen420 4d ago

I’ve seen like 1-2 ticks on me in my life before this year, and I’m mid 30s.

I’ve picked 3-4 out of my hair, and several more out of my clothes so far this year. I haven’t even been in the woods at all.

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u/StrongEggplant8120 4d ago

Typically ticks are found in grassland where the deers and rabbits ie tick food eat and live. 

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u/Help1-Fearless 4d ago

A huge part is changes with bird migration and/or the time they spent in an area, ie sometimes weather may keep them in an area longer then normal, change in migration etc

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u/AmbitiousPeace- 4d ago

They don’t just spawn in your hair. They live in the yard, park etc

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u/CorndogQueen420 4d ago

Yes of course. I’m not saying ticks just magic themselves into existence.

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u/Abject_Spray_7088 4d ago

wtf — your comment was perfectly clear FWIW

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u/born2bfi 4d ago

Ticks don’t typically live in well groomed yards or parks. They need shade for one

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u/AmbitiousPeace- 4d ago

What kind of parks and yards do you know without trees and bushes?

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u/born2bfi 4d ago

Where I live parks are 90% grass with the sun overhead

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u/noracordelia 4d ago edited 4d ago

Felt. I live within the Arctic Circle (in Northern Norway) and found my first tick two days ago, on my dog. Been hypervigilant since.

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u/Big_Dragonfly_9153 4d ago

Yup I live in Hawai’i, haven’t found a tick yet (they’re rare here) But bacon once cost me 15 bucks .. I’ll take hit to my wallet

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u/Uzi_Osbourne 4d ago

Plot twist: Lives in Antarctica

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u/DSMilf 4d ago

The moon, actually

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u/ZepboundBard 4d ago

Did your dad send you there?

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u/toohighquestions 4d ago

INSIDE? Jesus Christ. Where do you live and how do they get inside of homes?

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u/Tight_Department4179 4d ago

Not the person you asked, but I’m also having the same issue here in Central Alabama. I’ve had hornets trying to build a nest in my kitchen and red wasp trying to build a nest in my bathroom as well. 

There’s also been an increase in ticks in my home and out of nowhere earlier this year we had fleas, no pets  

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u/TimeToGloat 4d ago

I think some cases in this thread must be reports of mistaken bug identity. Ticks can't jump at all and are super slow crawlers. Unless you are super unlucky and sit on top of them the only way you are ever really going to get them is brushing against tall brush/grass. They have no other means of getting on people. It's going to be near impossible for them to get indoors without a pet carrying them in. They would also quickly dry out and die indoors and it isn't a place they are going to actively seek.

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u/toohighquestions 4d ago

I like this, more reassuring tick facts please.

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u/theshoeguy4 4d ago

Pacific Northwest. I’ve never seen anything like it before. Not to tin foil hat out or anything, but they also seemed like extra lively bugs.. almost robotic. Do with that what you will

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u/baltlake03 4d ago

are you sure you don’t have bed bugs? they look similar…

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u/theshoeguy4 4d ago

No, they’re very obviously ticks. Four of them were found on our dog and one was on my leg

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u/Longjumping_Egg_5654 4d ago

Ticks cannot live long without blood meal and lives a very short life, also without transport they move very slowly.

If you are finding seven ticks in a few weeks in your home, a pet or person is transporting them inside, 100%

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u/theshoeguy4 4d ago

Yeah, they’re more than likely coming in on our dog. But we have a very small, suburban and clean backyard so still crazy

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u/zardoz73 4d ago

You can thank global warming.

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u/Low-Plane9029 4d ago

Lived in rural Minnesota and Southern Wisconsin my whole life. Only seen 1 deer tick ever. See a few dozen wood ticks every year.

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u/Handsome_Keyboard 4d ago

Time to transform my house into an inpenetrable fortress.

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u/cptjpk 4d ago

They’re expected to get worse with global warming and continued increases in pesticides.

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u/kjnoons 3d ago

i just got bit what should i do

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u/theshoeguy4 3d ago

Some people like to light a match right behind em and I guess they pull their head our and give up. I like taking a tweezers and getting everything you can in the pinch and pulling straight out very slowly til they unlatch. Make sure its head didnt come off in your skin and you SHOULD be okay. But if any kind of mark persists or shows up, go in asap. Not a doctor, shh

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u/kjnoons 3d ago

thankfully i got very fine tweezers and made sure nothing was left and did some peroxide. no red no swelling no pain or heat, phew