"buglady" wrote in message
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.......Seed ticks are pretty small and only have six legs.

This is what my vet friend said over the phone when I called her in a panic.
I'd never heard of seed ticks, but she said they're just baby ticks. I guess
if you run into a nest of the things, they all glom on.

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.

I just got a closer look at the leg where they all are, but my tweezers were
too big to get the suckers. But I was able to see that the ones on the
leg--unlike the one I found this morning--are turning the telltale grey of
engorging ticks.

It makes me feel better to at least know what they are, but I'm so grossed
out to have dozens and dozens of them on him. Especially knowing the only
time he could've gotten them was this past weekend.

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,

This is the prevalent tick in the area where we were this weekend. I'm all
too familiar with the adult stage, but have never seen young ones where I
couldn't see their legs. Gotta be it, though.

.......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.

Great. I hope the vet has a method, because my tweezers and fingers aren't
working.

Cate