21.   To reduce the tick population, Falco recommends insecticide in residential environments in places where ticks are prevalent.

22.   Ticks are usually located close to the ground, so wearing high rubber boots may provide additional protection.

23.   What makes Byrnes tick is a desire to be among the best in her sport.

24.   While deer ticks are most troublesome in the spring, I remind myself to enlist my wife for a post-ride inspection.

25.   Zinna lived most of her life on a livestock farm west of Polo where ticks were part of everyday life.

26.   An unfed nymphal tick is the size of a poppy seed and an adult the size of a sesame seed.

27.   Experts quoted by ITAR-TASS said ticks were four times more active than last summer in the forests around Perm, where people had been picking wild strawberries.