Astealthy quest is afoot in the forests of the Netherlands. Sitting atop a blade of grass, biding time till its next blood meal, is a hard tick. It attaches to an exposed leg of an unsuspecting victim ...

Few things are more disgustingly satisfying than pulling a half-bloated tick out of its victim’s skin, head still intact. But seeing a chunk of flesh apparently still gripped in the arachnid’s maw may ...