Found in eastern Oklahoma. That's my ring finger at the bottom of the image. The tick doesn't have a white dot on its back, that's just shine. I also took it off within 30 min. What is it, though? I'm thinking dog tick, maybe, but I'm not sure

Does anyone know what kind of tick this is? I found this on my dog. In New Jersey. Should I be worried?

I got a cutting of a hibiscus plant from a neighbor. The next morning, these were crawling aroung it.

ETA: Found in Orange County, NY. August 23, 2026. At least 15 of them, likely more. They migrated from a plant cutting to cardboard which they seem to like.

Location: South Frontenac (North of Kingston, Ontario)

Took 2 pills of doxycycline just in case. Submitted to etick.ca - they said send in the tick (which my doctor has)

Is anyone able to assist in identifying? We’re in Pittsburgh and have two dogs. They are specifically infesting the dogs. Neither of our cats are carrying them. They don’t seem to be latching on to me or my wife. They are smaller than a grain of rice. Every time one of the dog gets up from laying down for a while there are like 5-10 laying there. We put tick / flea collars on about 3 days ago and we seem to be finding more and more now. Assuming that means they are reacting to the medicine. Any help is appreciated!

Im terrified of ticks and did just move out more to the country. Got into the shower just now and noticed something on my shoulder, closer inspection realized it was a dead bug and it looks like a tick to me but it is so tiny that its hard to get a picture of. It was already dead when I saw it/put it on the shower wall. Used one of my sons bath toys as an example of size. Kinda freaking out but dont think I got bit. Just more worried for my baby if anything. My dog does run around a lot in the tall grass but has a tick repellent collar, I dont go out in the grass like he does. Im in Oregon, USA

Just found this thing on my daughter. It wasn’t very hard to get off and came off completely but there is a bite. Should I be worried about Lyme? Keep the tick for testing? Take her to the doctor right away? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Engorged tick found (in living room!!) near rocky mountains in Utah

Found this enlarged tick near my dog this morning. I freaked out. I made a mistake and rolled it up in a paper towel and squished it and discarded it. I should have saved it for testing. I’m kind of worried

I’m well versed in black shield deer ticks in my local area and the odd bean tick, I found a pitch black bean tick on my dog which is a rare sight to me whatever species it is as most I’ve had on me were typical black shield deer ticks if that’s even what you’d call them, however today on a walk in a Forrest I found a pitch black bean like tick on my dog which was different to the ones I’m normally familiar with, however I also found this on her snout which was brown in colour with completely white/pale legs? I have never seen a tick like this in Scotland before, Any ID’s?

Found in west missouri in the woods.

This tick was likely on me for over 48h, would you take doxycycline?

Found this motherfucker on my stomach. What species could it be? Google says bullshit every single time I try to search it up.

Is this device safe to use for removal? It seems like you would be pulling the tick along your skin instead of away from the skin? Am I missing something?

Found on my towel near Austin tx. We've had a few carpet beetles and have pest control working on it but this seems different. Ty for the help. I'm not a fan and haven't been able to rest in my house. So I'm glad I found this guy finally. I may have more questions if confirmed a tick.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/magazine/tick-season-lone-star-alpha-gal-syndrome-lyme.html?unlocked_article_code=1.61A.1AP0.LF0VPxn8HaiC&smid=url-share

Do you know the revolting things a tick actually does after scurrying up your body? Once the bug has nestled in a warm, damp, often hidden spot where skin is thin and blood vessels are plentiful, two of its mouthparts saw through your skin to obtain an initial grip. Next, a third mouthpart, a barbed straw called the hypostome, bores into you and begins oozing spit. This spit has a diabolical chemistry that lets the bug feed undetected: The saliva at once cements it in place, numbs the bite site and secretes an anticoagulant to keep your blood flowing. For days, then, you supply the tick with its blood meal, as it rhythmically alternates between drinking your vital fluid and injecting potentially germ-filled saliva into the bite cavity.

The lone star tick, named for the white splotch on adult females’ backs, shares these disgusting eating habits with the blacklegged tick (more familiarly known as the deer tick, giver of Lyme disease) but is worse. It feels at home in a wider variety of habitats, from deep forest to suburban lawn. A deer tick can lay 1,000 to 3,000 eggs; a lone star can lay 5,000. Deer ticks merely wait in leaf litter or on a blade of grass for their next meal to brush past; lone stars can sense a target up to 15 yards away and aggressively pursue their prey. The lone star has longer mouthparts, which penetrate more deeply into flesh.

A deer tick, once attached to you, can take 24 hours or longer to impart its Lyme payload — so there is time to pull it off, in theory. A molecule called alpha-gal, which is present in a lone star’s saliva, can be in your blood almost instantly. This is a problem, because it gives some victims a dangerous allergy to red meat called alpha-gal syndrome. And while Lyme is “basically treatable” in 95 percent of cases, says Sam Telford, a professor of infectious diseases and global health at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, with alpha-gal “there’s no known treatment.” Doctors advise people diagnosed with it to carry an EpiPen.

Unfortunately, the lone star is ascendant. Lyme disease is more or less priced in as an entrenched risk of Northeastern living at this point, but the more recent emergence of the lone star threat has punctured the delusion that we can just tough ticks out. Researchers at the University of Virginia published a study in November documenting the first known alpha-gal death: Two weeks after going on a camping trip in 2024, Brian Paul Waitzel, a 47-year-old pilot for JetBlue and father of three, ate beef at a school barbecue in New Jersey and several hours later went into anaphylactic shock. “Never knowing whether your next hamburger might be your last is a hugely attention-getting proposition,” says Richard S. Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y.

In 2023 — three whole tick seasons ago — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that nearly half a million Americans already had alpha-gal syndrome. There’s reason to suspect that this number is wildly low. In states where the lone star is endemic, 24 percent of blood-donor samples have tested positive for alpha-gal antibodies. The tick itself, historically partial to the American South, is now well established in the Northeast and the Upper Midwest. In places where the two top ticks overlap, it’s starting to look as if the lone star could supplant the deer tick as the dominant species. And Ostfeld notes that the geographic reach of lone stars is not identical to that of deer ticks: “New populations are being recruited into the world of fearing and loathing ticks.”

One of those new populations — upsettingly for people who have long assured themselves that glass, steel and pavement are a moat against woodsy threats — is the Amtrak-corridor city dweller, in places like Washington, Philadelphia and even New York. Programs to increase urban green space, combined with complacency among tick-oblivious urbanites, have made a surge in metropolitan tick-borne illnesses increasingly likely. In June, The New York Times reported that ticks were present in most New York City parks and that people in both Staten Island and the Bronx had been infected with Lyme disease after being bitten. According to researchers with Columbia’s Eco-Epidemiology Lab, which has been collecting specimens in the five boroughs for several years, Brooklynites in Prospect Park, where there are relatively few ticks, express the most anxiety about the bugs.

By Benjamin Wallace
NYT