As If There Aren’t Enough Bloodsuckers Already; The Bread of Life Might Include Cockroach Parts

NEW BLOODSUCKER: It’s a vampire that starts out the size of a poppy seed and sucks blood until it’s up to pea-sized. Let’s have a round of contemptuous applause for the newest and most expandable tick to crawl up our pant legs, the Asian longhorned tick.

By name alone, one would expect it to arrive first in Texas. Nope, pardner. Our little ole Garden State is the first to behold one this side of Shanghai.