Around here (SW Missouri) a wood tick is a lot larger than any other tick.
They are fat little buggers with a greenish tint.
I thought dog ticks were similar in size and appearance to lone star ticks.
But I may very well be wrong. Google knows!! :-)
73, Mike
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:18 PM Joe Subich, W4TV <lists@subich.com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-07-16 12:33 PM, Dick Green WC1M wrote:
> > I live in an area prone to Lyme disease, but we've never seen a deer
> > tick here, only dog (wood) ticks.
>
> You may not see a deer tick. They are much smaller than the more common
> dog tick - the deer tick is about the size of the period at the end of a
> printed sentence. Unfortunately, we have both even down here in Florida
> and my wife has already experienced the "bullseye" rash.
>
> 73,
>
> ... Joe, W4TV
>
>
> On 2019-07-16 12:33 PM, Dick Green WC1M wrote:
> > Note that Permethrin is deadly fatal to cats. I didn't know that until I
> read the label on the bottle, after which I threw it away (we're very fond
> of our cat.)
> >
> > I wear knee-length gators, long pants, a long sleeve shirt and a hat
> when working outside, and always strip down and check my body for ticks
> when I go inside. Important to carefully check in your hair, as they like
> to crawl up there and hide.
> >
> > I try to do most of my antenna work in the fall when it isn't so hot,
> but near as I can tell, ticks are present from when the snow melts to when
> it falls again.
> >
> > I live in an area prone to Lyme disease, but we've never seen a deer
> tick here, only dog (wood) ticks. But that doesn't mean they aren't here.
> We have deer and mice on the property every day.
> >
> > 73, Dick WC1M
> >
>
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