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Giant Microbes Plush - Tick (Ixodes Scapularis)
Giant Microbes Plush - Tick (Ixodes Scapularis)
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Giant Microbes Plush - Tick (Ixodes Scapularis)
These Giant Microbes Dolls are a Million times their Actual Size! GIANT microbes are health and science products for humorous, educational, collectible, and Smart fun! Products include printed cards with fun fascinating facts. Unique gifts for students, scientists, teachers, health professionals & anyone with a healthy sense of humor!
All About Tick (Ixodes Scapularis)
If you frequent wooded areas it's only a matter of time until you're bitten. Tick, tock, tick, tock...
A super reminder to check for ticks when outdoors and a great gift for nature lovers!
FACTS: In most of the world’s dark woods and grassy plains, tiny ticks are questing in search of blood. These little vampires can be as small as pinpoints or as large as grapes – but they have an uncanny ability to sense heat and carbon dioxide, and to identify the well-travelled paths that their victims are likely to traverse. When they sense the motion of a nearby host, they drop from the tips of grasses or leaves and plunge their barbed, fang-like hypostome into their victim’s neck (or any other convenient spot) and lap up to hundreds of times their body-weight until they are sated. Or removed.
A kind of arthropod, ticks are not insects but arachnids related to scorpions and spiders. Hard ticks (such as deer ticks and dog ticks) have a plate-like scutum protecting their backs which gives them the comfort to feed for hours or days. Because diseases such as tularemia, Lyme disease, and Rocky- Mountain Spotted Fever tend not to be transmitted until dessert, there is often time to remove discovered ticks before lasting harm has been done. (Soft ticks, on the other hand, eat and run, dropping off after barely an hour.)
To remove a tick, folk remedies involving heated pins, matches, or gasoline are best avoided – they can provoke the tick into regurgitating part of its meal, and infection along with it. Instead, the tick should be grasped with a tweezers as close to the skin as possible, flipped onto its back (slowly, so as not to dislodge the “head”, or mouthparts, in the skin), and then gently pulled until it is removed. But resist the temptation to drive a stake through its heart as that can help spread disease as well. A bath of alcohol should allow you to discard a tick safely – perhaps with a clove of garlic.
Shipping & returns
Shipping & returns
Shipping
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Returns & our 30-day guarantee
If a sealed, unopened item isn't right, send it back within 30 days of delivery and we'll refund the purchase price (less original shipping) to your original payment method within 14 days of receiving it.
Not returnable: opened blind boxes, mystery packs, capsules and mixed lots (the surprise is the product), sale and clearance items, and gift cards.
Damaged or wrong item? That's on us. Email a photo and your order number to info@knickknacktoyshack.com within 7 days of delivery and we'll replace it or refund you, shipping included.
How to return
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- We'll reply with your return address and instructions.
- Pack the item in its original, unopened packaging and send it with a tracked service. Return postage is on you.
The full legal versions are here: Shipping policy · Refund policy.
How mystery packs work
How mystery packs work
Blind boxes, capsules and mystery packs are sealed by the manufacturer, so the character inside is a surprise to us too. Unless a listing says "choose your favorite", the one you get is random. Because the surprise is the product, opened mystery items can't be returned.
