Ticks are arachnids - that means spiders - blood-sucking spiders.

Female ticks lay a thousand eggs at a time.

Ticks can live a year without a "blood meal".

Ticks can go several hours without breathing.

Ticks consume a maximum amount of blood in a single feeding by regurgitating the water from the blood back into their host.

Kill ticks by dropping them in alchohol. I don't know how they know this, but apparently flushing them down the toilet won't kill them.

The number of ticks we pulled off of Wes today: 10

The number of ticks I pulled off of myself: 1