After some time outside last weekend, I saw what I thought was a zit on my knee. I went to scrape it off with my nail and it turns out that zit had legs and its mouth was already seated in my skin. Tick season (which appears to be all year) is here. Kansas has the lovely distinction of being the overlap zone of pretty much every tick species geographical area. Do yourself a favor and go buy Dirt Rag's latest issue (issue 155) and read their writeup.
Also, make sure you remove ticks properly should you get bitten. Grabbing the tick and squeezing to pull it off will make the tick puke into your bite wound. Likewise if you use the old remedy of burning the tick off with a match or lighter. It used to be thought that the heat would cause the tick to unlatch voluntarily, but this method also causes the tick to puke into the wound. Grab the tick as close to the skin as possible and gently pull up. Make sure you spray the wound with a disinfectant immediately.
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