I, Ixodes, The Mighty Tick: My True Story

I, Ixodes, The Mighty Tick. The true story of Ixodes the tick.

Did you know that…

• Mom ticks lay thousands of eggs to be sure enough babies grow into healthy blood-

sucking ticks.

• To a tick, food means one thing—the blood

of a warm-blooded animal.

• A tick has tiny cutters at the end of its

feeding tube to snip an entry hole in your skin.

• Ticks squirt a glue

on your skin to keep

you from brushing them off.

• Ticks can give you Lyme Disease or Rocky Mountain

Spotted Fever.