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Angela Berkley, High School Student
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The clothes may have ticks and chiggers on them and they'll chase you around your home trying to bite you if you let them.
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Rob Bruff, Nightclub Bouncer
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It is caused by tick bites, especially near the neck or shoulders.
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Phuong Nguyen, Exotic Dancer
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Insects, ticks, nonpoisonous spiders and bees are the most common bites.
Ticks are abundant and some carry what we call Tick Bite Fever.
Set the hook on suspected bites indicated by slight ticks on the line.
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Tony Howell, Skateboarder
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These tick bites are not just coming from the deep woods but from people's backyards in their urban neighborhoods.
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Shane Kelly, Bar Tender
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Though most bites are harmless there are poisonous spiders, snakes and ticks that can be extremely harmful.
Fleas, ticks and mites would just as soon bite you as they would the family pet, and getting them out of your home is expensive and time-consuming.
Ticks bite infected mice and later transmit the disease to other animals, including people and dogs.
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David Rosenberg, Dermatologist
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Fleas, mites and ticks, multiplying by the millions this season, have bites that can cause severe allergic reactions in hypersensitive animals.
Lyme disease results from the bite of a deer tick that is infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi.
Lyme disease is a rapidly emerging bacterial infection that is spread to people by the bite of infected ticks.
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