Forester reports 2,000 tick larvae from single female in home experiment

Forester and nature educator Dariusz Dziektarz shared the results of a home experiment conducted to observe the development of parasitoids in ticks. After finding no parasitoids in a blood-fed female tick, Dziektarz observed the hatching process of the eggs.

The experiment resulted in the hatching of over 2,000 tick larvae from a single female. This outcome aligns with data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which notes that a single female tick can lay up to 2,000 eggs. Dziektarz used the findings to highlight the reproductive capacity of the common tick species found in Poland.