"Cate" wrote in message
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I showed it to my husband and we both agreed it was black, no bigger than
a
poppyseed, and we didn't see any legs sticking out anywhere. It was just a
shiny, round black dot.

........Seed ticks are pretty small and only have six legs. Can you chuck
one of them into some alcohol, then look at it? Got any kind of a magnifier
around? Honestly I can't imagine what else they might be. Summer is the
time for seed ticks in most parts.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2147.html
Black-legged tick (deer tick)
The larval stage of the black-legged tick is about the size of a poppy seed,
flat, six-legged,

Pix of nymph with dime for comparison:
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegall.../iscapnwd.html

Pix of larva with dime for comparison:
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegall.../iscaplwd.html

........Just ran across a good paper evaluating the current commercial tick
removal tools:
http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~acarolog/tickgone.htm Unfortunately
none of them are able to remove whole nymphs (seed ticks) successfully.

buglady
take out the dog before replying