Protect.Check.Remove (nsfw, really)

Billboard @ exit to Presque Isle State Park

“In Pennsylvania, many ticks are carrying a disease.” With that important message out of the way, BirdingPI.com is foregoing its yearly “macro tick photography” PSA in favour of a cute, furry bunny recently seen along the Gull Point Trail:

Eastern Cottontail Rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus)

What a cute, furry bunny!

Look, a cute, furry bunny!

A cute, furry bunny covered in engorged ticks!

Mammalian tick host
Detail of engorged ticks (species unknown) on mammalian host

Yuck. (Warned you not to open this post.)


Wishing everyone a pleasant, parasite-free weekend. #more_bird

2 thoughts on “Protect.Check.Remove (nsfw, really)

  1. Paul Edwards

    The bunny must be able to survive multiple tick bites. Is there a lesson from this? Perhaps harvesting its blood and injecting hikers with it will prevent tick bite problems! We must run this past RFKII

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