Experts share tips for safety and prevention ahead of tick season [Video]

The small predators are looking to bite animals in wooded areas. A state park employee says they can be hard to see and feel.

MONROE COUNTY, Ga. — As we get closer to summer, the warm weather may be calling for you to head outside to the great outdoors. There’s a tiny mite that could be lurking waiting to spoil your summer fun, according to High Falls State Park Naturalist, Bronwen Morgan.

“It actually has eight legs like a spider but it feeds off the blood of other animals,” Morgan said.

Morgan said ticks can be found during warm months in several places.

“A lot of brush and undergrowth or low hanging limbs because they’re going to be living on tall blades of grass or on the back of leaves,” Morgan said.

Morgan said the mites are really small and some of them you can’t feel.

“Hundred of seed ticks dropped onto the back of my hand …