Life Cycle Of A Tick Source: Wikimedia Commons
- Ticks have have 4 stages in their life cycle: egg, larval, nymph and finally, adult.
- After eating a blood meal from a host animal, a larval tick (which has 6 legs) will drop off the host and move into the nymph phase of life with 8 legs
- While you can find ticks all year round, winter is nymph tick season!
- Nymphs ticks are more dangerous because they may contain alpha-gal from their recent animal feeding
- You could contract mammalian meat allergy from a nymph tick bite from this alpha-gal.
- Nymph ticks require the protein from another blood meal to grow a new shell and move into adult phase.
- Adult females will need another blood meal to grow and lay eggs.
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Tick Safe & The Mozzie Team
