Sam

=__**BLOOD THIRSTY DEER TICKS**__=

Deer Ticks are a big problem to animals and humans because they can pass lyme disease.

I have three questions I want to answer. 1. Q: What do deer ticks eat? A: They feed on blood. 2. Q: What is a deer ticks predator? A: It is called a guinea fowl it eats deer ticks. 3. Q:why do people call them deer ticks? A:Because they reproduce on the White Tailed Deer.

**__HOW TO PREVENT LYME DISEASE__**
There are many ways to prevent Deer Ticks. 1.One way to prevent Deer Ticks Is by staying away from tall grass. 2.Another way to prevent Deer Ticks Is by wearing long,bright clothes. Pants should be tucked in to your socks to block off the Deer Ticks. 3.If you do get bit, you need to get some pliers and grab the tick and take it away from your arm and rinse your arm off with warm water

=__life cycle__= The deer tick has three stages in its life cycle. The first stage is Larva when a larva hatches from its egg and finds prey to start feeding on. After a week the deer tick detaches its self to start the second stage. The second stage is the Nymph which is the most active stage of there life. The Nymph then finds a new host to feed on by stading on a tall piece of grass and jumping on a mammel. Once they do that they feed for about two weeks then detaches again to start the last stage of its two year life. The last stage is an adult deer tick which last a while. The adult deer tick trys to find a bigger host to feed on for about a month. If the adult deer tick does not find a host they will hide under a leaf for winter. Once Spring comes the deer tick comes out for the last feeding of the life cycle. The last feeding is on a White Tailed Deer so after its final feeding it may reproduce,and start the life cycle all over again. This is my life cycle model this is the time line of a deer tick =__**36 hour warning!**__= If you have not noticed the deer tick after 36 hours, if that deer tick had the Lyme disease, it has fully transmitted the disease to your body. If that has happened, you should automatically go to your docter's office to get the lyme disease removed from your blood cells so you do not get sick. If you start to feel bad and you have been by tall grass lately, you probably were too late to find the deer tick and the Lyme disease has fully transmitted to your blood cells and is slowly killing you.The only way to stop it now is to go to a Lyme disease expert and see if they can remove it in the next two days to save your self, just barely.

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