RECORD NUMBER OF TICKS TICKING OFF CAMPERS

RECORD NUMBER OF TICKS TICKING OFF CAMPERS

MUNCIE, Ind. (Wireless Flash) -- You have a good reason to get ticked off: ticks are bugging humans earlier this year. According to Ball State University's Public Health Entomology Laboratory, unusually warm winter weather has spawned a bumper crop of ticks that are arriving much earlier than usual. Researcher Robert Pinger says the tick population usually doesn't surge until May -- but most areas of the country are already swarming with ticks. If you happen to have a run-in with a tick, don't prick it with a pin or a hot match head. Instead, Pinger says use tweezers to pull off the little bugger.