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What use are ticks?
What a peculiar question—ticks could of course ask the same about us. It’s understandable, though: besides drawing our blood, they also transmit very troublesome diseases, of which Lyme disease by far is the most common for us.
Ticks have been doing exceedingly well on earth for a very long time. A tick…
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