SUN JOURNAL • May 31, 2021
For me, generally, biting insects like hornets, horse flies, black flies or other creeping or slithering critters are never cause for panic. Ticks, though, are a pest of a whole different magnitude. As we are beginning to learn, a deer tick can do lasting damage, infecting us with untold diseases, some that we still don’t totally understand or know how to treat. These insidious, quasi-microscopic bugs scare the heck out of me, not so much for what they look like, but for their sneaky, pervasive nature and what they can do to me. ~ V. Paul Reynolds