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Even tick season feels suspicious now.
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A tick boom hits different in a low-trust country.
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The creepy crawlies are having a moment.
BRIEFING
Grant here. Ticks are a nuisance, everyone knows this. They hook on, spread disease, and wreak havoc with our furry companions. But typically, you'll come across these creepy crawlies in the woods or incredibly thick grass. But now it seems like every time you walk outside, especially in the northern and midwestern parts of the country, you're instantly confronted by a swarm of them. Let’s break it down.
A recent X post features a man from northwestern Illinois who posted a video in which he says he can barely walk his dog without finding ticks. He also states that things in the great outdoors are starting to feel a little off. He's not diving into grand conspiracy theories, but still, he can't help but notice, looking around, that he sees ticks everywhere, and it's starting to freak him out.
SOURCE
🚨 Illinois Man Asks Why There Are So Many Ticks This Year: ‘What Is Going On??’
“I'm not a conspiracy theorist … but why are there so many ticks in Illinois this year? … I've never seen anything like this.” pic.twitter.com/Dx5YMuE1QD
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) May 11, 2026
But this guy isn't just imagining things... there's actually real data to back up his unease.
The CDC said in April 2026 that emergency-room visits for tick bites were higher than normal in many parts of the country, with weekly rates in every region except the South Central U.S. at the highest level for that time of year since 2017.
Illinois officials have also been warning residents about rising tick activity and tick-borne disease risk. IDPH has launched an interactive Tickborne Disease Dashboard to track tick species and related diseases across counties, and recent reporting noted that Midwest tick-bite emergency visits were already unusually high this spring.
But this pattern has been building for years. The University of Illinois Extension has been tracking this epidemic and highlighted the growing public-health concern around ticks in Illinois, while researchers studying tick habitats have tied risk patterns to climate, landscape, host animals, and environmental conditions across the state.
What's really interesting, though, is that researchers have linked expanding blacklegged tick distribution to reforestation, deer recovery, recent climate warming, and changes in where people live and encounter wildlife. In plain English, ticks are getting more opportunities to survive, spread, and bump into humans.
DEBRIEFING
Whether the surge in ticks is a grand conspiracy or a "natural" occurrence, it's odd, and it's affecting millions of people and their animals.
There are real, fact-based reasons for the surge: weather patterns, milder winters, deer movement, changing habitats, and more people living near tick-friendly areas. But the reaction this guy has in the video shows that there's a general public unease and a lot of people are quick to jump to conspiracies in order to explain anything out of the normal.
This is what happens when people no longer believe institutions. A bad tick season stops feeling like a bad tick season and starts feeling like one more signal that something is off.
NOW YOU KNOW
Even tick season has a trust issue.
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Newly released files admit the CIA created Lyme disease. These are genetically modified ticks. Bill gates has been developing this for years.
The global elite want most of us dead…
80 Percent, to give that a real number.
And isn’t it amazing. Bill paid for research to deliver vaccines by mosquitos. Suddenly these is a tick problem and reports of boxes of ticks showing up in farmers fields and shazam. He has a vaccine just like COVID. The ticks bite and you can’t eat red meat. The world economic forum talked about this exact scenario because they claim we eat too much red meat. There are no coincidences.
Solution: More free-range chickens. Chickens devastate ticks.
Guinea Fowl are AMAZING tick foragers and they’re hilarious to have atround.
I object to your comment about Italian fowl. 😁😁
Too much noise
IF you want to avoid ticks, stay off of the trails [PERIOD]. Very few ticks survive to reproduce, so they produce CLOUDS of little ticks everytime they are successful. They leave one animal on a trail to find another animal on the trail. JUST DON’T BE THAT ANIMAL. Personally, I don’t remember a day growing up without a tick or chigger bite. Was on family properties where all the kids had to strip and shake out their clothes to rid themselves of ticks at the gate before you went home. I lived on one of those properties for 5 years during graduate school AND NEVER GOT ONE TICK BITE THE WHOLE TIME. Say whatever you want about fire ants, but I’ll trade them for ticks any day…they changed that part of Texas for good. Apparently, fire ants LOVE chiggers and ticks.
Having been bitten by ticks and attacked by fire ants,I’ll take nasty ticks anyday.
You’ve never had spotted fever…it’s a life changer…
Sounds like tin foil hat nonsense. I always say when it comes to these half baked theories’ such as climate change (used to be global warming) melting of the ozone, the stupid bees theory, etc: “do you see any difference in your area?” My answer is a resounding NO. So everybody stop wetting your pants, drop the collusion theoriwes, grill, eat a burger, drink a beet, and enjoy life people.
Bug populations are cyclical. While the conditions you describe certainly conducive to their growth, this just might be a part of a cycle. The other aspect is the EPA managed to manipulate the Food Quality Protection Act that eliminated the pesticides that kept them under control.
Well Lyme disease and Alpha Gal Syndrome ain’t gonna spread themselves.
Bill Gates working with the CIA to create another plandemic!!
Well, on the “grand conspiracy” side of the argument, if I were intent on spreading a bioweapon, I would do it using blood-sucking insects, like ticks, fleas and mosquitoes. Bill Gates has the mosquito market covered, so who’s sponsoring the ticks?
Nothing about Bill Gates having thousands of little cardboard boxes in farms and fields that are filled with lab grown ticks? He’s said to doing some kind of unannounced experiment and releasing millions of ticks,
Ask Bill Gates. ‘Nuff said.
I blame the illegal aliens
blame this on Luna. We have a plethora of Lunatics in Congress, media, and other places.
In order to balance out the “tocks.”
My chickens clean up the ticks pretty well, but their coop is covered with honeysuckle that just bloomed very fragrantly, and I never saw a single honey bee.
We live in Appalachia, WV and our tick population has also exploded. We work a lot in the woods clearing our land, and have to take extreme measures; change clothes and check each other as soon as we get in. Our only safe zone, is the cleared 2 acres where our flock of 30 chickens free range.