Here is a little update to the tick information that is published a few blog postings below.This little girl (about 1/8 inch long) is a female Lone Star Tick that my neighbor Rudy contributed. Rudy found this tick crawling on his neck after standing in vegetation in the woods to take a picture of a friend's house that is under construction.
Lone Star ticks are named for the white dot on the back of the females. Males are slightly smaller and without the dot. The area behind the dot is the part that expands to the size of a grape when the tick fills up with a nice tasty meal of blood.
The Lone Star Tick is common in the Southeastern United States and it carries the bacterial species that causes Human Ehrlichiosis.
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