{"id":22361,"date":"2021-05-07T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T12:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/?p=22361"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:49:27","slug":"tip-9-stay-in-the-middle-of-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-9-stay-in-the-middle-of-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip #9: Stay in the middle of trails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Humans learn how to walk on their own when they\u2019re about 14 months old but it takes a public health entomologist to offer guidance on how best to walk on a trail to avoid ticks. One way to think about trails is as a pathway&#8211;from the safety of the parking lot or open space&#8211;heading deeper into tick habitat. Nymph- and larval-stage ticks will more commonly be encountered in the leaf litter that accumulates on the sides of trails than in the middle of the trail; adult-stage ticks are commonly shin-to-knee high on tall grasses and other low vegetation at the trail edge just waiting for a host to pass by. We\u2019re not saying there are no ticks in the middle of trails, just typically far fewer. By hiking in the middle of the path, you\u2019re less likely to get lost, damage plants, cause erosion, run into poison ivy, or <strong>pick up ticks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-share-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-share color  \"><div class=\"cl-share-label\">Share:<\/div><ul class=\"cl-share-buttons\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Tip #9: Stay in the middle of trails&amp;url=https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-9-stay-in-the-middle-of-trails\/\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"cl-share-twitter share-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-9-stay-in-the-middle-of-trails\/\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"cl-share-facebook share-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans learn how to walk on their own when they\u2019re about 14 months old but it takes a public health entomologist to offer guidance on how best to walk on a trail to avoid ticks. One way to think about trails is as a pathway&#8211;from the safety of the parking lot or open space&#8211;heading deeper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4045,"featured_media":22163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[493,553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ticksmart-tips","category-walk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22394,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361\/revisions\/22394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}