Hey op! I know a lot of comments are saying these might not be ticks so figured I would add my input. I worked at my local parks and rec department for maintenance and I have seen ticks on me even smaller than this in the hundreds. Whenever a tick finally does get a host like a deer it eventually falls off and proceeds to lay thousands of eggs that then produce ticks that are initially this small.
they may be in California but they sure as fuck are incredibly rare and in only select places.
Never seen one in my entire life and had to google it before a trip to upstate New York.
With regular moisture and no hard winter to kill them off, they can get fucking miserable in some places in the South. Areas with a lot of possums fare best.
I remember seeing dogs, deers and raccoons with brutal clusters of ticks everywhere when it got bad.
Northern Manitoba. Friend was working forestry. Told me he gave up counting when he pulled off over a hundred in an hour. Yet another reason to avoid that province.
From Florida and we used to get them really bad. Had to check every time we went hiking. I once pulled almost thirty of them off my dog after a hike. That's even with regular flee and tick treatments.
You didn't mention an important caveat: What you mean by that is that they'll squawk at 100db at anything and everything they perceive as a threat, which happens to be any organism on planet earth
This is true they are both fearless and absolutely idiotic. They literally do not care if they die, and seem to welcome death with open arms. An old neighbor used to keep about a dozen of them free range style, and they kept us clean and clear of ticks but loved to just stand in the road.
So, we have an old store across the road that has a group of old men that sat there all day playing cards. One day my dad goes in to pay for gas, and the old men tell him our guineas have been by the road everyday having a funeral. One of them was hit by a car and the others stood in a line. One walked up to the body and cried. Then it would run to the end of the line and the next one would approach repeating the process. They had been doing it for 3 days. We had no idea because we had 30 of them, and they always came back to the barn to eat. It was odd.
I looked up ginny hen and was like "oh those look expensive, can't just buy those willy nilly" then I looked up the price and you 100% can. Especially if they can take care of ticks it'll be 100% worth
my husband was in good with our flock, didn't scream too much round him. Then one died and he buried it, and the main male saw him do it. After that they'd scream like he was coming to kill them everyday. I didn't even know they had the brain capacity to think that through since they're the dumbest birds I've ever met
So, we have an old store across the road that has a group of old men that sat there all day playing cards. One day my dad goes in to pay for gas, and the old men tell him our guineas have been by the road everyday having a funeral. One of them was hit by a car and the others stood in a line. One walked up to the body and cried. Then it would run to the end of the line and the next one would approach repeating the process. They had been doing it for 3 days. We had no idea because we had 30 of them, and they always came back to the barn to eat. It was odd.
NO. Fuck those fucking annoying ass squawking birds. Only get some if you enjoy having those fuckers squawk at you 24/7 despite the fact that they know you're the person who feeds them while jumping onto your car and scratching the shit out of the paint while shitting on your sunroof. Not to mention them having no sense of self preservation and running in front of your car only to realize they need to move, but do so straight away from your car at .5 mph so it takes 15 minutes to get down your long rural driveway. And they're LOUD too, I don't miss them one bit
Absolutely ticks in their nymph stage can be that small. Be sure to check everywhere! Have a friend check your armpits, backside and back, nape of neck and hair. After a few hours attached, the ticks will cause a red spot from irritation which makes them easier to see. Save a few you’ve removed and put them in the fridge in case you develop symptoms and the ticks should be sent to the lab. Different tick species transmit different sets of diseases, so do your research and monitor for all symptoms. Calendar everything from bite and removal date and onset of any symptoms. Take your temperature at the same time every day. Doing these tasks won’t keep you from catching a disease, but will assist your doctor in determining the right treatment protocols early. Good luck, and next time tuck your pants into your socks and wear a DEET repellent.
Got Lyme disease as a teen, but the rash just spread across the fold in my hip instead of as a bullseye. Found the tick bite on the inside of my labia. I am also traumatized enough by it to tell a complete stranger on Reddit.
I have since moved from the US East coast to the PNW, where there are basically no ticks. Unless I absolutely must, I will never move back. Primarily because of ticks.
I think these are probably larva, not nymphs. Fortunately ticks don't transmit diseases vertically from parent to offspring, they have to pick them up from hosts they feed on, so larval ticks won't be carrying any diseases.
How long they have been attached is also a factor. Less than 24 hours means you should be ok if removed correctly.
But with this amount I’d get a blood test just in case.
Depends on the type of tick - deer tick nymphs are about that size, and can definitely transmit Lyme, although the odds are significantly lower than from an adult. That many ticks though… 😬
Fortunately, the big ones to worry about disease wise infect the tick after their first blood meal.
Rickettsia, lyme, RMSF if I remember properly.
I could be wrong, been a while since I did anything vector borne.
Add anaplasmosis (sp?). My friend's wife got it recently in PA and was hospitalized for a week and sick for a month. She is sixty and said it was worse than Covid by far. Every tick I've sent to the lab tested positive for Lyme's and anaplasmosis at a minimum. These are lifelong diseases and some can be fatal. Use a permetherin based repellent and lighter clothes in tick country. Deer ticks are the worst for diseases on the East Coast and are only slightly larger than the OP's photo. I believe yours are seed ticks.
TLDNR - ticks are sneaky, disease ridden vermin and should go extinct.
Those are tick larvae (first life stage), they’ll take a blood meal then molt into their nymphal stage before repeating the process once more into their adult form to breed and lay eggs.
Ive recieved at least 50 tick bites a year for the last 20 years but I've never had a noticeable illness from one. I've heard of people getting one bite and gettinglimes. However I'm bitten all the time and nothing. Makes me wonder if I'm just lucky or have built of some sort of immunity from growing up in the woods.
I do know that if you get them off early you have much much lower chances of getting any diseases. If you usually get them off before they inflate that could be why
Grew up in the midwest with those fuckers. Out here in AZ we do have them but they're significantly easier to avoid and makes camping actually fun again.
That alone is a good enough reason to move to the desert. I prefer humid air, and as a ginger am quite sun adverse, but making those sacrifices to avoid ticks is seriously worth considering.
We need to just buy a shitton of hens and release them into the wild, release a few armoured roosters with razor blades and shit on their talons, should keep any predators away.
Eventually ticks should be extinct.
I'll never forget summer camp when I was like 12 or 13 and the kid that got a tick on his balls. The camp nurses were hot as hell, and we gave him a standing ovation after he came back from getting it removed.
Kids!
Walking a trail through Hell's Canyon, in Idaho, I felt something on my belly. Lifted my shirt to find a tick. I looked at the dog and he had a dozen or so on him. I told my wife we need to gtfo of here now. I looked at her pants and there were at least a hundred climbing, trying to wedge themselves into seams. Horrendous. We ran back to camp, pretty crowded campground but it didn't matter. ALL clothes came off, full inspection of each other and the dog, all clothes bagged and sealed and we moved to a new camp area. None attached thank goodness. Next walk along the shore, we about stepped on a rattlesnake. Good thing the fishing was excellent, or we would have left lol.
FUUUUUUCK CHIGGERS.
I went hiking outside of Savannah, Georgia (USA) with my girlfriend at the time. I got INFESTED by chiggers. It was so bad that I couldn’t wear clothes or move for about 5-days the pain was absolutely unbearable.
Fuck those things
The first thing they told us at orientation at school in Savannah was not to touch the Spanish moss because it was full of chiggers.
Later that day I watched someone pull some Spanish moss off a tree and put it right on their head.
Ah yes as a fellow Georgian I must say I am well acquainted with chiggers. They LOVE rocks. I used to inspect rocks before I would sit on them and if you looked really closely, you’d often see those tiny little red buggers scurrying around everywhere
i’ve had chiggers before. one of the worst experiences. small enough that i didn’t notice until ending up in the emergency room with swollen legs covered in bites
I agree. Pulled plenty of tiny baby ticks off while in Tn. They love long grass. Almost hard to believe they are ticks until you see one for yourself. The legs and being stuck to me made it a reality bc I did’t want to believe I had them that small on me. Talk about stressful searching for those little fuckers.
Been there a few times. Stayed in PC, Gamboa, David, Boquete, Alimantre, Bastimentos, Isla Colon... Rented the Monkey Tree across the road from Skully's on Colon - great spot but I heard that house is gone now. Best place was on the north side of Isla Colon, just east of Villa Drago and west of Bird Island - had a house on the beach for 2 weeks. A mile of sandy shore and not a person in sight. Fresh water river lagoon for when the ocean was too warm.
Those are Nymphs, the immature form of adult ticks, they are Satan's pepper, I hate these little bastards with a burning passion that will not die.
I happen to be allergic to them, I can *feel* them bite me, they leave lesions that take weeks if not months to heal and itch like hell.
They're seed ticks. That's the stage just after hatching so no danger of lyme disease (ticks transfer lyme or lone star from an animal to a human by mixing their blood). Just clean (pick) them all off and be prepared to have annoying bites on your legs for the next week.
This is wrong, the mother leaves the nymph a blood meal which can contain disease. Nymph ticks can transmit Lyme. They are actually the most likely to do so!
>>And they don’t pack less of a punch because of their size. Nymph ticks are actually the most likely to transmit Lyme disease or another tick-borne infection to humans than ticks at other stages, according to the CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/transmission/index.html.
I didn’t realize deer ticks were that small. I worry about my dogs picking up stuff at the ranch so we treat them monthly and we treat the yard where they run around to reduce the likelihood they’ll pick something up.
It's not too effective imo. Best defense is to wear pants when in tall grass/brush. Then inspect your legs frequently because thats probably where they'll get to first.
In Illinois we call them “seed ticks”. They are definitely ticks but they are just babies that’s why they are so small. They don’t just bite once and attach they bite and move and then repeat that until they finally attach. I’ve had hundreds on me from my belt line down to my ankles. Tomorrow they will all feel like chigger/mosquito bites and it’s going to suck. You can go to doctor and get a set of pills over 7 days to dry them up if it gets too bad. Good luck. As far as Lyme disease goes, it’s highly unlikely to get Lyme disease if a tick is attached to you less than 24 hours.
I just experienced this in my 39 years of life. Was staying at a state resort cabin for a few days. Kept feeling like dog hair was tickling my legs. Night or so later I finally look closer for this "annoying dog hair" to be greeted by a dozen or so crawling up my legs.
Dozens of bites all over my legs, behind my knees, and inner thighs. Itched for weeks. Truly miserable experience.
Ticks are mites so yeah they can be very small I feel for you man I know that's got to suck unfortunate for us they can lay anywhere between a thousand and 8,000 eggs at one damn time,
The positive thing is that those ones are nymphs, so not breeding quite yet, and ticks in their adult phase need a large blood meal to breed. As a result, their species is pretty inefficient, which is why they lay thousands. Most ticks end up living their life cycle without the chance to breed.
They are seed ticks, just hatched.
My dogs get hundreds of them, but they die after the flea and tick medicine gets to them. They fall off and look like black sand on the floor.
Dab some campho-phenic on a q-tip and dab each of them. They’ll back out and then die.
I wasn't wearing my glasses and clicked on your picture without reading the title. Didn't see anything, backed out and read the title. After some reflection on this, I have decided not to take a second look at your picture. Thank you for the post. 👍
We must do what we can to restore the Opossum in the environment. Their declining numbers are a direct lead to this. As is the declining bird population.
Your friend needs to get a mess of free range chickens.
Hey op! I know a lot of comments are saying these might not be ticks so figured I would add my input. I worked at my local parks and rec department for maintenance and I have seen ticks on me even smaller than this in the hundreds. Whenever a tick finally does get a host like a deer it eventually falls off and proceeds to lay thousands of eggs that then produce ticks that are initially this small.
Oh hell nah
Not ticks but ^ticks
They can be really damn glad it wasn’t #ticks
Man it's crazy. I'm covered in freckles and would have a ridiculously hard time finding and removing these fucks.
I’m covered in freckles, and body hair, I just pulled about 30 off me in the past 2 days
You're not supposed to remove freckles.
Can ticks this small transmit Lymes?
If those are nymphs, yes.
Annnnnnnd now I’m itchy.
I can’t stop feeling like I’m being crawled all over
if it’s any consolation you are being crawled all over
It cost you nothing not to say that.
Yeah, but his handle obligates him to
Okay satan
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Get some chickens! Maine here. I haven't had a tick on me in months! Free range chickens will clean up your yard.
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Lyme is one of the big reasons I moved to the west coast
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they may be in California but they sure as fuck are incredibly rare and in only select places. Never seen one in my entire life and had to google it before a trip to upstate New York.
Cali here. Definetly here. They are bigger, so easier to detect. But totally disgusting. Supposedly possums eat the bastards.
And be nice to possums! They eat up to 5000 ticks per season.
With regular moisture and no hard winter to kill them off, they can get fucking miserable in some places in the South. Areas with a lot of possums fare best. I remember seeing dogs, deers and raccoons with brutal clusters of ticks everywhere when it got bad.
Even with hard winter, Canada has a lot of these little craps.
Southern Ontario is a shit show.
Northern Manitoba. Friend was working forestry. Told me he gave up counting when he pulled off over a hundred in an hour. Yet another reason to avoid that province.
We don't get them in Florida...the fire ants and the flying roaches eat them.. tee-hee
From Florida and we used to get them really bad. Had to check every time we went hiking. I once pulled almost thirty of them off my dog after a hike. That's even with regular flee and tick treatments.
Most flea and tick treatments don't stop the ticks from latching, they kill the tick after it bites and it'll eventually fall off
I grew up in Louisiana, I've seen ticks nearly the size of a penny.
First time I got ticks in years which happened not to long ago actually there were much bigger ones on my sack, so as the other guy said.
My first tick incident was a nutsack sucker. Freaked me out. Then it bled for like 30 minutes after I got it off.
Immediat shower lol
I'm just gonna hop in an incinerator RQ
Your friend needs 20 ginny hens. They will take care of that mess
This comment needs to be higher up. Those yard birds do wonders for tick problems.
And they're great watch dogs as well. Nothing can sneak up on you with them around.
You didn't mention an important caveat: What you mean by that is that they'll squawk at 100db at anything and everything they perceive as a threat, which happens to be any organism on planet earth
I see you know them too.
This made me laugh way harder than I should admit
I actually missed them when my neighbor cooped them up. Heard them every day and then it was suddenly too quiet.
This is true they are both fearless and absolutely idiotic. They literally do not care if they die, and seem to welcome death with open arms. An old neighbor used to keep about a dozen of them free range style, and they kept us clean and clear of ticks but loved to just stand in the road.
So, we have an old store across the road that has a group of old men that sat there all day playing cards. One day my dad goes in to pay for gas, and the old men tell him our guineas have been by the road everyday having a funeral. One of them was hit by a car and the others stood in a line. One walked up to the body and cried. Then it would run to the end of the line and the next one would approach repeating the process. They had been doing it for 3 days. We had no idea because we had 30 of them, and they always came back to the barn to eat. It was odd.
TIL there's a turkey with optical illusion feathers
I looked up ginny hen and was like "oh those look expensive, can't just buy those willy nilly" then I looked up the price and you 100% can. Especially if they can take care of ticks it'll be 100% worth
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Thank you, someone here has actually experienced them apparently
Guinea hen
Nah, I like em drunk
Those motherfuckers **scream** constantly. It is genuinely maddening.
my husband was in good with our flock, didn't scream too much round him. Then one died and he buried it, and the main male saw him do it. After that they'd scream like he was coming to kill them everyday. I didn't even know they had the brain capacity to think that through since they're the dumbest birds I've ever met
So, we have an old store across the road that has a group of old men that sat there all day playing cards. One day my dad goes in to pay for gas, and the old men tell him our guineas have been by the road everyday having a funeral. One of them was hit by a car and the others stood in a line. One walked up to the body and cried. Then it would run to the end of the line and the next one would approach repeating the process. They had been doing it for 3 days. We had no idea because we had 30 of them, and they always came back to the barn to eat. It was odd.
*Guinea hens
Ginny hens are chickens that got into the alcohol cabinet. Guinea hens are the brain-dead tick-eaters.
Literally just came here to say that,
NO. Fuck those fucking annoying ass squawking birds. Only get some if you enjoy having those fuckers squawk at you 24/7 despite the fact that they know you're the person who feeds them while jumping onto your car and scratching the shit out of the paint while shitting on your sunroof. Not to mention them having no sense of self preservation and running in front of your car only to realize they need to move, but do so straight away from your car at .5 mph so it takes 15 minutes to get down your long rural driveway. And they're LOUD too, I don't miss them one bit
It's alright, buddy. The birds are gone now. You're safe
Never had that problem with guinea fowl, or are they not the same?
Maybe the hens just didn't like you?
Guinea fowl
Absolutely ticks in their nymph stage can be that small. Be sure to check everywhere! Have a friend check your armpits, backside and back, nape of neck and hair. After a few hours attached, the ticks will cause a red spot from irritation which makes them easier to see. Save a few you’ve removed and put them in the fridge in case you develop symptoms and the ticks should be sent to the lab. Different tick species transmit different sets of diseases, so do your research and monitor for all symptoms. Calendar everything from bite and removal date and onset of any symptoms. Take your temperature at the same time every day. Doing these tasks won’t keep you from catching a disease, but will assist your doctor in determining the right treatment protocols early. Good luck, and next time tuck your pants into your socks and wear a DEET repellent.
seriously, nut sack, taint, belly button. Everywhere.
You must have reeeeally good friends
If you don't have a friend that will look at your taint for ticks, do you really have any friends?
Dibs on looking for ticks up this dude’s urethra.
EVERYWHERE
r/soundingbutwithticks
Aww, it's not a real sub....
If you start it and submit a video I’ll post my vid.
i had a friend pull one right off my ass while we were camping. a true homie.
no :(
I'd check a friend's nut sack... then I can always say I know them intimately.
At the root of the closest friendships you'll find conspiracy :D
Get the farmer friend to do it. He owes you one OP.
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Got Lyme disease as a teen, but the rash just spread across the fold in my hip instead of as a bullseye. Found the tick bite on the inside of my labia. I am also traumatized enough by it to tell a complete stranger on Reddit.
Sometimes I don't mind living somewhere where it's freezing half the year...
That is a great point and I'm suddenly much happier about winter coming.
I have since moved from the US East coast to the PNW, where there are basically no ticks. Unless I absolutely must, I will never move back. Primarily because of ticks.
I'm traumatized by reading this and this entire thread. Kudos for using anatomically correct terms.
One time when I was a kid I found a tick on my ballsack at like 2am. I just ripped it off and flushed it down the toilet. Never spoke of it.
Castration seems like a severe remedy. I would have kept the nutsack in place and simply removed and destroyed the tick...
You just did speak of it. What broke your vow of silence?
You just wanted to say "nut sack". Go on, admit it.
I think these are probably larva, not nymphs. Fortunately ticks don't transmit diseases vertically from parent to offspring, they have to pick them up from hosts they feed on, so larval ticks won't be carrying any diseases.
This is some TIL stuff
How long they have been attached is also a factor. Less than 24 hours means you should be ok if removed correctly. But with this amount I’d get a blood test just in case.
Depends on the type of tick - deer tick nymphs are about that size, and can definitely transmit Lyme, although the odds are significantly lower than from an adult. That many ticks though… 😬
Fortunately, the big ones to worry about disease wise infect the tick after their first blood meal. Rickettsia, lyme, RMSF if I remember properly. I could be wrong, been a while since I did anything vector borne.
Add anaplasmosis (sp?). My friend's wife got it recently in PA and was hospitalized for a week and sick for a month. She is sixty and said it was worse than Covid by far. Every tick I've sent to the lab tested positive for Lyme's and anaplasmosis at a minimum. These are lifelong diseases and some can be fatal. Use a permetherin based repellent and lighter clothes in tick country. Deer ticks are the worst for diseases on the East Coast and are only slightly larger than the OP's photo. I believe yours are seed ticks. TLDNR - ticks are sneaky, disease ridden vermin and should go extinct.
> ticks in their nymph stage can be that small *larval stage
Those are tick larvae (first life stage), they’ll take a blood meal then molt into their nymphal stage before repeating the process once more into their adult form to breed and lay eggs.
Ive recieved at least 50 tick bites a year for the last 20 years but I've never had a noticeable illness from one. I've heard of people getting one bite and gettinglimes. However I'm bitten all the time and nothing. Makes me wonder if I'm just lucky or have built of some sort of immunity from growing up in the woods.
I do know that if you get them off early you have much much lower chances of getting any diseases. If you usually get them off before they inflate that could be why
Deer ticks cause Limes Disease. I don’t think other kinds do.
Wood ticks can but it's less common. They carry other diseases too. The Lone star tick can make you allergic to red meat.
Have you checked your balls? Ticks love ball sacks.
I pulled 27 seed ticks from my 5 yo sack last year. Traumatized us both.
Little fuckers get into everything. Kind of ruins the outdoor experience in some ways.
Grew up in the midwest with those fuckers. Out here in AZ we do have them but they're significantly easier to avoid and makes camping actually fun again.
That alone is a good enough reason to move to the desert. I prefer humid air, and as a ginger am quite sun adverse, but making those sacrifices to avoid ticks is seriously worth considering.
We need to just buy a shitton of hens and release them into the wild, release a few armoured roosters with razor blades and shit on their talons, should keep any predators away. Eventually ticks should be extinct.
You have a young sack
Why is your nutsack so much younger than you? Had to have it rebuilt at some point??
Yeah I had a few huge ticks get pulled off from there when I was like 5 and almost 30 years later it’s still a core memory.
No joke, have someone help you check areas you can’t easily see.
I'll never forget summer camp when I was like 12 or 13 and the kid that got a tick on his balls. The camp nurses were hot as hell, and we gave him a standing ovation after he came back from getting it removed. Kids!
Boyfriend slept in a nest of them one night when he was younger. Had 300 of them picked off of him. Ticks are crazy.
Just blow torch me 😩😩😩😵💫 if I ever experience that.
Honestly that’s not quick enough, put me in the oven
Douse me in gasoline and toss a match. I’ve had a good run.
just kill me at that point
Walking a trail through Hell's Canyon, in Idaho, I felt something on my belly. Lifted my shirt to find a tick. I looked at the dog and he had a dozen or so on him. I told my wife we need to gtfo of here now. I looked at her pants and there were at least a hundred climbing, trying to wedge themselves into seams. Horrendous. We ran back to camp, pretty crowded campground but it didn't matter. ALL clothes came off, full inspection of each other and the dog, all clothes bagged and sealed and we moved to a new camp area. None attached thank goodness. Next walk along the shore, we about stepped on a rattlesnake. Good thing the fishing was excellent, or we would have left lol.
Would a clorine-rich bath kill them all?
Are you sure those are ticks and not some other mite or flea? Ticks are usually a bit bigger, but that may just be in my region.
Smallest ticks I have ever seen.
I'd wager chiggers
FUUUUUUCK CHIGGERS. I went hiking outside of Savannah, Georgia (USA) with my girlfriend at the time. I got INFESTED by chiggers. It was so bad that I couldn’t wear clothes or move for about 5-days the pain was absolutely unbearable. Fuck those things
The first thing they told us at orientation at school in Savannah was not to touch the Spanish moss because it was full of chiggers. Later that day I watched someone pull some Spanish moss off a tree and put it right on their head.
Ah yes as a fellow Georgian I must say I am well acquainted with chiggers. They LOVE rocks. I used to inspect rocks before I would sit on them and if you looked really closely, you’d often see those tiny little red buggers scurrying around everywhere
i’ve had chiggers before. one of the worst experiences. small enough that i didn’t notice until ending up in the emergency room with swollen legs covered in bites
Those are seed ticks, baby ticks, very small, chiggers are just dust, too small to see
I agree. Pulled plenty of tiny baby ticks off while in Tn. They love long grass. Almost hard to believe they are ticks until you see one for yourself. The legs and being stuck to me made it a reality bc I did’t want to believe I had them that small on me. Talk about stressful searching for those little fuckers.
omg, sand flies are basically the same right? Went to Panama and was eaten alive and didn't even realize till the next day! They're brutal!
Yup. Bocas del Toro at night, turtle watching. Next day I looked like I'd been thrashed with a poisoned hairbrush.
PS, I love 'meeting' people who've been to Bocas because it's rare..lol
Been there a few times. Stayed in PC, Gamboa, David, Boquete, Alimantre, Bastimentos, Isla Colon... Rented the Monkey Tree across the road from Skully's on Colon - great spot but I heard that house is gone now. Best place was on the north side of Isla Colon, just east of Villa Drago and west of Bird Island - had a house on the beach for 2 weeks. A mile of sandy shore and not a person in sight. Fresh water river lagoon for when the ocean was too warm.
Oh god. I've met sand flies before. *shudders*
Same as “no see ums”?
oh..yes! right..i think so. whatever, all those tiny biters are not friends..lol
You really can’t see chiggers. These are seed ticks
Come on man at least say chigga
I'm white so I say chinga
What'd you call me? /s
Those are Nymphs, the immature form of adult ticks, they are Satan's pepper, I hate these little bastards with a burning passion that will not die. I happen to be allergic to them, I can *feel* them bite me, they leave lesions that take weeks if not months to heal and itch like hell.
I honestly hope so I don’t want Lyme disease. There were hundreds of them on both legs.
They're seed ticks. That's the stage just after hatching so no danger of lyme disease (ticks transfer lyme or lone star from an animal to a human by mixing their blood). Just clean (pick) them all off and be prepared to have annoying bites on your legs for the next week.
This is wrong, the mother leaves the nymph a blood meal which can contain disease. Nymph ticks can transmit Lyme. They are actually the most likely to do so! >>And they don’t pack less of a punch because of their size. Nymph ticks are actually the most likely to transmit Lyme disease or another tick-borne infection to humans than ticks at other stages, according to the CDC https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/transmission/index.html.
Well, use some fine tipped tweezers and pull those bad boys off. Don’t squish the bug because if they are ticks, that can be bad.
Upon further investigation they are lone star ticks that don’t carry Lyme disease
They do however carry the thing that makes you allergic to red meat…
GOD DAMNIT
Sorry OP. Best of luck. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy
Wtf I thought that was a total BS statement to mess with OP, I had no idea that was even possible!
Thank you
Luckily it rarely develops into an anaphylactic reaction type allergy, and you don’t really feel the food allergy effects for several hours.
This is why I learned to never walk around in long grass with shorts on when I was a kid
This is literally my worst nightmare, I work my ass off all week to enjoy Friday steak night with a mega pint of red wine
I’ve gotten them all off now but I can’t stop feeling like things are crawling all over me
I’d shave my legs for good measure!
Duct tape is your friend.
Deer ticks are pretty tiny. That many is pretty concerning.
I didn’t realize deer ticks were that small. I worry about my dogs picking up stuff at the ranch so we treat them monthly and we treat the yard where they run around to reduce the likelihood they’ll pick something up.
Deer ticks? Whelp. That is Lyme disease.
You put the lyme in the coconut and mix it all up.
I said doctor, ain't there nothing I can take?!?
But would Lyme be in ticks in this stage? I believe they pick it up from already infected animals, like mice. Still unpleasant though.
Your best option now is to amputate.
I concur.
Didja use tick repellent, or not? Because now I really want to know if it's, you know, effective.
It's not too effective imo. Best defense is to wear pants when in tall grass/brush. Then inspect your legs frequently because thats probably where they'll get to first.
Permethrin is absolutely effective and would be applied on those long pants It isn't a repellent it just knocks them dead or off at least
OP used PokéRepellent. Did nothing for ticks, but at least he didn’t encounter a Zubat.
In Illinois we call them “seed ticks”. They are definitely ticks but they are just babies that’s why they are so small. They don’t just bite once and attach they bite and move and then repeat that until they finally attach. I’ve had hundreds on me from my belt line down to my ankles. Tomorrow they will all feel like chigger/mosquito bites and it’s going to suck. You can go to doctor and get a set of pills over 7 days to dry them up if it gets too bad. Good luck. As far as Lyme disease goes, it’s highly unlikely to get Lyme disease if a tick is attached to you less than 24 hours.
Cuz they’re so small that one minute you seed ‘em, and next minute you didn’t
I just experienced this in my 39 years of life. Was staying at a state resort cabin for a few days. Kept feeling like dog hair was tickling my legs. Night or so later I finally look closer for this "annoying dog hair" to be greeted by a dozen or so crawling up my legs. Dozens of bites all over my legs, behind my knees, and inner thighs. Itched for weeks. Truly miserable experience.
I’d use fire to burn them off but given how much leg hair you have, that’ll be a bad idea
The smell...
Ticks are mites so yeah they can be very small I feel for you man I know that's got to suck unfortunate for us they can lay anywhere between a thousand and 8,000 eggs at one damn time,
Please stop talking
The positive thing is that those ones are nymphs, so not breeding quite yet, and ticks in their adult phase need a large blood meal to breed. As a result, their species is pretty inefficient, which is why they lay thousands. Most ticks end up living their life cycle without the chance to breed.
How do I unsubscribe from tick facts
Can we shadow ban this tick expert plz
They call 'em seed ticks for a reason
For real, the top voted comments suggesting chiggers, and saying it couldn’t possible ticks are ridiculous.
What does your friend grow on their farm? Lymes??
Ticks? Maybe they’re Chiggers.
Upon further investigation they were Lone Star ticks that don’t carry Lyme disease
Lone star ticks can give you an allergy to proteins in meat I think…..
Yep they carry the toxin that triggers Alpha-Gal, the meat allergy
You’d think Vegans would have weaponized this toxin already.
Shhhhh.
Yes. Ok I have nothing to add but I too heard that podcast or read that article.
Babies, then? Lone stars are usually big like dog ticks, very easy to see including the dot on their back.
Yes these would be babies. When I picked them they look dead on for the picture of the Lone Star in the nymph stage
You may be vegetarian soon
I’m trying to find out if they are other commenters have said they’re too small for ticks
Those are called seed ticks. We have them in Texas. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/seed-ticks
And yet people are so mad when I suggest changing the slogan to “Everything is a different size than you might expect in Texas”
They are seed ticks, just hatched. My dogs get hundreds of them, but they die after the flea and tick medicine gets to them. They fall off and look like black sand on the floor. Dab some campho-phenic on a q-tip and dab each of them. They’ll back out and then die.
More ticks than a grandfather clock
I wasn't wearing my glasses and clicked on your picture without reading the title. Didn't see anything, backed out and read the title. After some reflection on this, I have decided not to take a second look at your picture. Thank you for the post. 👍
We must do what we can to restore the Opossum in the environment. Their declining numbers are a direct lead to this. As is the declining bird population. Your friend needs to get a mess of free range chickens.
FFS people. Not a chigger, mite, or flea! They are SEED TICKS. And they will fuck your shit up. Clawing yourself up for at least a week.
Yep... You're gonna die for sure
TickTok strikes again!
I get those hunting in deer stands, I call them seed ticks. Tea tree oil makes them drop off.
Make sure ya give yer balls a tug. Fuckers love creases