Moderator note: the comments below were moved from a separate topic about DEET and other chemical repellants for ticks. To discuss that, head to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deet-and-other-repellents-for-ticks/2911 [image] DEET and other repellents for ticks I use Baby Organics herbal insect …

[image] fern_friend: In tropical monsoon forests in SE Asia I have also witnessed tricks dropping into my hammock even when there was no foliage immediately above Working in SE Asia for most of the last decade I’ve never encountered this, in or out of monsoon season.

I don’t think it’s necessarily typical, but they can. I once watched a tick fall from a tree and into my grandma’s hair. There was a lot of movement in the tree, so I am assuming it fell off an animal or an animal threw it off. I don’t think it’s something they would deliberately do though, because …

imagine if ticks could do what tiny spiders do and release silk and fly in the air, only to attach to himans in any possible outdoor place. Eww.

I for one am imagining an alternate evolutionary history where ticks evolved wings

they almost have. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/130393-Lipoptena-cervi (yes wrong taxonomy but they look and feel like ticks)

[image] jnstuart: generally wearing minimal clothing I never got infested. There ya go. I tend to do the opposite of the usual tick advice – I’m not going to wear trousers tucked into boots if it is shorts weather. But I do constantly check myself as I am walking around, and if a tick is clim…

They feel much worse, ticks don’t travel with you, running around your head, they don’t fly off your head to your bathroom just to attack you afterwards, so I’d prefer a tick. [image] jasonhernandez74: But you might if they were crawling up a bare leg. You can, but definitely they crawl the …

I myself haven’t seen a tick in years, as they are fairly uncommon here, but I have experienced them just ‘appearing from nowhere’ on upper parts of the body. I would say it is just them climbing up, as it happens whether there are trees or not. Then again, even tough bulldog ants don’t usually cli…

I have had the same impression with Rhipicephalus sanguineus in Pianosa. We were aware of the massive presence of this species there and we often looked at the bare ground to see if there were some of them “running” in our direction. But after walking beside the trees along a path we found some tic…

Most definitely. Picture this, a calm day, canoeing through a small lake in a provincial park in Ontario. I see an insect float down from the sky and land on my leg. I look down, it’s a black-legged tick. Happened just this past year.

Can ticks drop from trees?

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earthknight October 26, 2021, 3:48am 33

Working in SE Asia for most of the last decade I’ve never encountered this, in or out of monsoon season.

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Can ticks drop from trees?

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