New Yorkers brace for self-cloning Asian longhorned tick. A new study maps out the increase and spread of the Asian longhorned tick, a new species identified last summer in Westchester and Staten island. What's particularly alarming is that the tick is notorious for its ability to quickly clone itself through asexual reproduction, or reproduce sexually, laying 1,000-2,000 eggs at a time. Source 1t
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Asian Longhorned Tick (Hover)
One thing is to fear ticks like these that will slowly plague your body, but it's another thing that eventually not even sprays or chemicals drives them off anymore. With the rate of reproduction that they get involved with along with high resistances makes a scary combo which I hope doesn't happen.