View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Astealthy quest is afoot in the forests of the Netherlands. Sitting atop a blade of grass, biding time till its next blood meal, is a hard tick.

A tick will not detach from a host's skin until it's completed a blood meal or is removed with tweezers. Often, the first ...

An NUS-based study says 11 species that have bitten humans here can carry 1 or more harmful microbes. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Black-legged ticks carry this illness. As soon as they hatch, they need a blood meal to survive. These eight-legged arachnids feed on a wide variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.