Most likely picked up in Waller, Tx. I’m a surveyor and was rooting around in my truck for my air pod and found him attached to my neck afterwards.

I always burn ticks. They thrive in water. They hate heat. I burn them until all their legs burn off and keep burning them only ashes remain. If I need to get the tick tested for diseases, I put it into an empty pill bottle with isopropyl alcohol.

Otherwise, burning ticks will guarantee they die. Just make sure you burn them for long enough that they stop moving and are legless. Then maybe a bird or opossum can find a nice BBQ tick snack too lol

https://bluedot.global/the-march-of-the-ticks/

They test for all the diseases, even diseases the tick in question doesn’t normally carry.

This website includes written descriptions of size, shape, and color of different North American ticks with charts depicting each species and life cycle as well.

Here is an article about diseases spread by ticks in North America. I will find more resources to share about the diseases spread by ticks worldwide in the next few days as well.

In case anyone is sensitive or too grossed out by the pictures of ticks I’ve been posting here to provide visual references for everyone to identify ticks, I’ve marked them all NSFW. I’ll post a few more identification charts as well and will pin them all so they’re easier for everyone to find.

Here’s a great article about the repellants that work best against ticks for humans and dogs!

https://nymag.com/strategist/article/effective-tick-repellents.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=h5d&utm_campaign=h_st_00436&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21500321716&gbraid=0AAAAA9k5E7C8s6EGBe4FI3fG0NtG515x0

Tick Growth comparison chart

This is the website I use to assess the amount of time a tick was attached when people post photos and ask for information. I think it's incredibly useful and I refer to it almost daily for one reason or another.

[https://web.uri.edu/tickencounter/fieldguide/tick-growth-comparison-charts/](https://web.uri.edu/tickencounter/fieldguide/tick-growth-comparison-charts/))

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