The Mendocino Voice ·

Tick season never ends in Mendocino County

By Roger Coryell

A blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, on Jan. 22, 2004. The blacklegged tick is found on a wide rage of hosts including mammals, birds and reptiles and are known to transmit Lyme disease to humans and animals during feeding, when they insert their mouth parts into the skin of a host and slowly take in the nutrient-rich host blood. (CDC via Bay City News)

The bug most likely to give you Lyme is too small to feel.

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