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Need Advice Can anyone (or anyplace) ID what I think is a tick?

Discussion in 'Nature/Habitat/Garden Corner' started by Sesame, May 24, 2011.

  1. Sesame

    Sesame New Member

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    (Very) small creature in question is in a glass jar - found him on my son's hair the other night. Would really like to know what it is - if nothing more than to satisfy what has become an obsession with wondering if its a tick or not. Anyone good at this or know a person or organization who would be willing to take a look? Squinting at online photos isn't helping and I'm sure what to look up to find images of things that look like ticks but are not.

    Have tick (?) will travel.

    Thanks! :happygrin:
     
  2. christinaandrob

    christinaandrob New Member

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    can you upload a photo?
     
  3. Sesame

    Sesame New Member

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    i can try a photo.... but its going to look like this - but brown

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    :)
     
  4. OSimpson

    OSimpson Certified Master Naturalist

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    Mr. Linux Senior Member & Moderator Forum Staff

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    Attached is a very informative brochure from Loudoun County with LOTS of information on ticks in our area, including images, prevention, etc. I believe this is the same brochure that was given out to school kids to take home recently.
     

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  6. Sesame

    Sesame New Member

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    thanks! my son is 10 months and hadn't been even near grass on monday - if it is a tick i'm thinking it might have gotten in somehow on sunday after a day at the park with his 3 year old sister and then somehow got on him after bath when i found "it" on his hair.... granted this could be a piece of lint that i am villifying out of paranoia. perhaps i need a magnifying glass.
     
  7. TeamDonzi

    TeamDonzi ShowMeTheMoney!

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    I have seen many ticks, post a picture. Hate to say this but could it be head lice? A magnifying glass would definitely be helpful.
     
  8. Sesame

    Sesame New Member

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    i'm going to find a magnifying glass tomorrow! thankfully its not head lice (knock on wood, thwart the evil eye, etc etc etc)....
     
  9. Rhaegar

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    We're at two deer ticks on two different kids already. I'm (my kids) are fortunate my wife is able to look at a speck on their body and call it a tick when it looks like a speck in a steam of dirt to me. We watched for the bullseye rashes for another week and nothing developed.
     
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    At the farmers market today (leesburg) the loudoun master gardeners had this tick identification chart which was quite good:

    http://www.vdh.state.va.us/epidemiology/DEE/Vectorborne/TickBrochure.htm

    They've offered in the past to look at pics via email so you could try that route also.
     
  11. Sesame

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    thanks! turned out not to be a tick but i am WAY informed and ready!! thank you all!!
     
  12. wolf685cln

    wolf685cln New Member

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    can't handle the suspense... So what was it? Bellybutton lint, miniature alien invading earth, baby poppy seed, CIA listening device?:confeyes:
     
  13. Sesame

    Sesame New Member

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    :blush:

    lint.

    i know, i know, i know..... i know...

    but we all learned so much about ticks via this conversation!

    also i have two small children and they have eaten my brain. and we spent all day in a woody park that day so the timing was right for a tick.... :shakehead:



     
  14. wolf685cln

    wolf685cln New Member

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    It's definitely good to be diligent...was watching a documentary on the Appalachian Trail recently, and one of the scenes focused on a plant with a tiny brown bulb on it. From a distance it appeared as if it were part of the plant. As the camera zoomed in, it was a nasty glob of tiny ticks trying to hitch a ride somewhere... Hundreds, maybe thousands of them. It creeped me out a bit and I'm extra careful on my backpacking trips now....paranoid of every twig on the trail.

    Thanks for the education...:happythumbsup:
     
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    If it makes you feel any better I once had a call from the school nurse that also turned out to be lint...
     
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    When we lived in South TX, my husband was patrolling the border one day. He came home with hundreds (no exaggeration!!) of ticks all over him. I made him go straight to the shower, clothes and all. It was the nastiest thing I've ever seen!! So picking a tick or two off my dogs is nothing. :)
     
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    You could make it sound more interesting...in Scotland the term they use for fluff or lint found in the bellybutton or found in the far recessed corner of a pocket is called oose.
     
  18. Sesame

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    Vicious angry dark brown/purple lint!!!! It was about to eat my son's head and I swooshed in and removed it just in time. Can you imagine if I'd not seen it? The horror!


     

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