>*inflates you until your big and round*

I don't understand the question.

>>5113122
I killed 5 or 6 in the last week, these fuckers are back

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>caww yiss bloodcorn

>>5113122
it wouldn't be that bad if not disease transmission

>>5113127
What purpose do ticks have?

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>>5113354
The existence of organisms has no purpose, only causes. Ticks exists because they survive on a parasite niche specified to climb and hide in fur/feathers. This simply works, if ticks is a disease transistor is just a byproduct for the same reason, it's a cause by natural selection.

>>5113354
What purpose do you have?

>>5113354
survival, just like everything else
if being a tick wasn't a viable means of surviving, then they would have gone extinct and/or been pressured into something else

>>5113354
Popcorn for birds.

>>5113132
>>5113407
p much

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>>5113122
I think it's safe to say that no one will miss these things if they went extinct

>>5113562
That poor fucking dog
Was he helped?

>>5113122
>>5113354
TO BECOME ORB

OP is a massive retard braindead dipshit loser

>>5113354
live and fugg

>>5113392
>>5113620
Ticks posted these.

>>5113569
he was drained

>>5113562
jesus. consciousness sucks but having hands really is a blessing

>>5113562
me and some friends once rescued a dog that was almost in an awful state as this one. She grew to be a beautiful and healthy dog that got to live till 13yo ^^

>>5113354
Nutrient redistribution. A bird that eats a tick is basically feeding on a deer.

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>>5113122
>plump
>doughy
>round
>rotund
>full
>curvaceous
>spherical
>cushioned
>supple
>velvety
>full-figured
>corpulent
Damn, that's peak comf'

>>5113122
I like the sound they make when you toss one of this plump fuckers into a fire

>>5113872
>comunism in bug form
Thanks, as if i needed any more reason to hate them.

>>5113562
True.

>>5113562
I trapped a skunk that was covered with ticks like this, decided to shoot it and then burn it.
Still feel bad about it, but picking 1000 ticks off of a critter with a chemical weapon in its ass seemed an impossible task, and with the way it was walking there's a chance it had rabies.

>>5113872
That's just the food chain
A tiger that eats a deer is basically feeding on the grass

>>5113937
The tiger is actually feeding from the sun's energy

>>5113354
There's no purpose but fulfilling an ecological niche. An ancestor of ticks millions of years ago found it more convenient and sexually successful to live off the blood of others, and it continued on.

>>5113937
No shit, but midwits don't understand that parasites are a significant part of the food chain and think they can remove them with no consequence.

>>5113354
They're great for some of the worst diseases known to man.

>>5113354
same purpose usury has in human society

>>5113983
kinda gay if you think about it, everything just runs on sunshine and rocks

>>5113931
Yeah, fuck that thing. Plants and fungi still probably had fun with its charred corpse so it's not like you deprived nature of anything.

>>5114420
Shit's fucked, man.

>>5113354
The purpose of ticks is to be ticks. If ticks didn't fill in the niche, something else would and it would've been equally hated by people

>Find a big swollen tick
>Inject it with hydrogen peroxide

>>5113122
They feed on some animals and are food for other animals.

>>5113354
to suck your blood BLEH

How can we genocide ticks?

>>5115085
You can't.

>>5113122
I had one in my willy for some time, noticed when I went out to have a wank, I didn't know what it was and had to ask mum to take a look.
Bugger crawled from outside and into my room, sometimes I hate to live in the country.

>>5114023
Fuck you.
Point to the part of the ecosystem that would fail if all parasites were deleted from existence right now.

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>>5113931
Could've bought some cow dip

>>5113122
Ticks have a purpose that serves humans and the planet. Or they wouldn't be here.

>>5115781
Without mosquitoes, bird and bat populations would plummet. Several hundreds of species would go extinct. The rivers will run red with blood. And Nazis will once again roam the earth on zombie dinosaurs.

>>5115953
They have moths and flys to eat.

>>5113354
Bioweapons made for Israeli interests

>>5115781
Altered Behavior of Parasitized Killifish Increases Susceptibility to Predation by Bird Final Hosts

>Parasites that are transmitted from prey to predator are often associated with altered prey behavior. Although many concur that behavior modification is a parasite strategy that facilitates transmission by making parasitized prey easier for predators to capture, there is little evidence from field experiments. We observed that conspicuous behaviors exhibited by killfish (Fundulus parvipinnis) were associated with parasitism by larval trematodes. A field experiment indicated that parasitized fish were substantially more susceptible to predation by final host birds. These results support the behavior—modification hypothesis and emphasize the importance of parasites for predator—prey interactions.

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>>5115981
>Kikes predates most Cretaceous dinosaurs apparently