Tick
The wood tick is usually found attached to a host, but when it is without a host, it hides in cracks and crevices, as well as soil. If for some reason the tick is not able to find a host before the winter months, it will stay under groundcover until spring, when it can resume its search. The wood tick typically does not seek out available hosts in the hottest summer months, as well. Adult ticks, for the most part, tend to climb to the top of grass and low shrubs to attach themselves to a host wandering by. These ticks are able to attach to their hosts by secreting a cement-like substance from their mouths and inserting it into the host.
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—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)