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American Dog Tick

Dermacentor variabilis

Photo by dferris
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Found on leg after walking through tall grass prairie at Camden State Park

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Dermacentor variabilis

Species ID Suggestions

American Dog Tick

Dermacentor variabilis

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Christine Y.
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Comments (4)
dferris
You are right. This is something I have always just called a wood tick and assumed it was right. Didn't bother to look into any more than that. The Range is definitely wrong, I will change it, Thanks.
Christine Y.
Based on your location and the physical characteristics of this tick, this is an American Dog Tick. Here's a link that might be helpful to you in the future: http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_identification
HemaShah
lucky it did'nt latch on to you!!
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PublishedJune 8, 2014

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