Ticks
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Free tick identification
https://www.ticklab.org/identify-my-tick
Not sure your photo is of sufficiently good quality, but you could give it a try.
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Free tick identification
https://www.ticklab.org/identify-my-tick
Not sure your photo is of sufficiently good quality, but you could give it a try.
Free tick identification
Thanks!!
Not sure your photo is of sufficiently good quality,
It may not be, I think I took four photos and all of them are a bit on the blurry side. It was small enough that it was very hard to get a good photo and we didn’t want to let it get away, so I eventually gave up!
I will try sending it in though!
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They identified the tick we found on the floor in the dining room in 2022 (I just looked it up!). As I recall they got back to me pretty quickly. It was a fully engorged American dog tick and it probably had latched onto Raffi when he was outside; there's no way it could have been on us without us noticing it. It was huge!
I didn't pay to have the tick tested (that lab offers the service) but we did take Raffi in and had a blood test done on him. He had no tick-borne diseases.
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Well it means you have ticks in your yard. It might just be a stray, or it could be that this is a bad year for ticks in your area. Dog ticks prefer dogs but can latch on to humans. I think repellents work. In the woods I used to pull my socks over my pant legs.
https://momgoescamping.com/tick-types-pictures/
The university might have more info on how tick season is progressing in your area.
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Things you can do, from WebMD:
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Well it means you have ticks in your yard. It might just be a stray, or it could be that this is a bad year for ticks in your area. Dog ticks prefer dogs but can latch on to humans. I think repellents work. In the woods I used to pull my socks over my pant legs.
https://momgoescamping.com/tick-types-pictures/
The university might have more info on how tick season is progressing in your area.
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Keeping the grass short helps keep tick populations down. They cannot complete the life cycle with frequent mowing.
Keeping the grass short helps keep tick populations down.
I wonder if our grass is short enough. We mow once a week and keep it just a touch long — I mean, it doesn’t look long but the deck isn’t on the shortest setting, doing it this way is supposed to help prevent non-grass weeds…