{"id":23,"date":"2015-12-07T17:49:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T17:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2015-12-07T17:49:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T17:49:41","slug":"ticks-are-active-in-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/ticks-are-active-in-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticks are Active in the Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25\" src=\"http:\/\/gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tick.jpg\" alt=\"Tick\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tick.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tick-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Being outdoors and enjoying nature is a wonderful thing, but some not so wonderful creatures can hitchhike back inside. \u00a0 Ticks can jump onto our clothing or one of our furry friends while going inside after playing.<\/p>\n<p>Ticks are very hard to spot, an adult tick may be 1 cm long after full of blood and smaller than a sunflower seed. \u00a0Often found in wooded areas ticks feed on any available source of blood. \u00a0This often results in them feasting off of livestock, dogs, cats, and even humans.<\/p>\n<p>Signs of a tick are either seeing it or seeing the results from a disease it carried. Ticks will commonly nest in past rodent&#8217;s or bird\u2019s homes so make sure to discard these. \u00a0Ticks will also lay in crevices or gaps. \u00a0Keeping your grass short and tight may discourage the ticks from calling that there home.<\/p>\n<p>If you spot a tick on yourself or a loved one grab it by its head with a teaser carefully pulling it away from the hosts skin. \u00a0Squeezing it may result in it releasing fluid; in this case seek medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a tick or other infestation do not hesitate and call <a href=\"http:\/\/gottabugcalldoug.net\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gotta Bug<\/a> Call Doug at 864-582-3684 to keep your house pest free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being outdoors and enjoying nature is a wonderful thing, but some not so wonderful creatures can hitchhike back inside. \u00a0 Ticks can jump onto our clothing or one of our furry friends while going inside after playing. Ticks are very hard to spot, an adult tick may be 1 cm long after full of blood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/ticks-are-active-in-the-winter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ticks are Active in the Winter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,3],"tags":[5,4,6,7],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-douglas-pest-control","category-pest-control","category-pest-library","tag-house-pests","tag-pest-control","tag-pest-control-spartanburg","tag-ticks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gottabugcalldoug.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}