Ix come from the land Down-Under

[drhoz]

Ha! We Australians mock your feeble American ticks. Rocky Mountain spotted fever? Tularemia? Our ticks don't need no steenking microbes to kill you dead, they can do it all by themselves.

Ladies & Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you...

Ixodes holocyclus, the Paralysis Tick

Comments

[noodlebug24]

so, I will never be going to Australia..

[drhoz]

no no no, by all means come. we can use the extra bait.

[67]

LMAO.

[noodlebug24]

hahaha

[codestothestars]

good thing i'm moving to australia for a year in april. i need more excitement in my life.

[chalk]

Australians all let us rejoice.
So good to live here.

[moonvoice]

For we are young and freeeeeee to be eaten...

Eheheh.
Also, I heart your icon. :D

[niiku]

Fuck D: I'm never going there. Between this and an aussie friend of mine telling me some years back that she got ambushed by a big male red kangaroo on the way back to her car one night, and she almost got pummeled to death by the brute... I'm never setting foot in Australia. D:

[drhoz]

we've got two species of bird that can kill you too. Cassowaries that'll disembowel you, and magpies that will simple ram a beak thru your eye socket and into your brain.

[niiku]

Holy shit D: *traumatized*

[drhoz]

the magpies get aggressive during breeding season too. Hence the wearing of ice-cream hats, and sunglasses on the backs of our heads.

[gemfyre]

So glad the Western ticks aren't that nasty.

But it is truly freaky to be sitting in the bush and watching the roo ticks determinedly crawl towards you.

[drhoz]

*grins* determined little buggers, aren't they?