I HATE ticks.
This is a link to a magazine article regarding an autopsy by field biologists on a poor little moose calf who got sucked dry in New Hampshire.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...-moose/583189/
In early Spring, the Moose can lose 3.5 gallons of blood (for a calf, **** near ALL of its blood) in a short period when female ticks go into blood sucking overdrive and bloat up getting ready to drop off and lay their eggs.
Moose calves (50% of all yearlings some years lately) often die of anemia. Adults are weakened, lose a lot of weight, females don't have as many calves.
This is happening every year warm enough so that snow cover in the woods doesn't become permanent well before December.