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2. How to Remove a Tick Head From Your Skin—the Right Way - AOL

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   Spread your dog’s fur, and grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible using fine-point tweezers or tick-removal hook. Very gently, pull straight upward, in a slow, steady motion. Dispose of ...

3. These Pictures Will Help You Identify the Most Common ... - AOL

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   If the tick is still attached, you have to be very careful when you remove the tick head. Once the rash appears, the bullseye rash in particular is a telltale sign of Lyme disease , even though ...

4. Tick-borne diseases on the rise: Here's what to know about ...

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   As ticks must be attached for at least six hours to transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and more than 24 hours to transmit Lyme disease, frequent checks are crucial in avoiding tick-borne illnesses.

5. Tick infestation - Wikipedia

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   The ticks that transmit Lyme disease are hard ticks. [4] Ticks often have a preferred host, but may still attach to a different host when called for. Their preferred host may change depending on the tick's stage of development (eg larval vs adult) and the host may or may not carry the transmittable pathogen. [3]

6. How to remove ticks and what to know about these ... - AOL

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   There are more than 800 species of ticks found around the world, and 84 that have been documented in the United States. However, only a handful in the US bite and transmit diseases to humans.

7. Tick season is here, so here are common Maryland varieties ...

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   If a tick is found attached, remove it as soon as possible with a slow, steady pull. It is best to use forceps with the tips placed on or just behind the mouthparts. Pull the tick’s body away ...

8. Dermacentor variabilis - Wikipedia

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   The American dog tick is commonly found in highly wooded, shrubby, and long-grass areas. Tick numbers can be reduced by cutting the grass, which creates a low-humidity environment, which is undesirable to ticks. Pesticides can also be used and are most effective when applied to vegetation that has been cut to a short level. [9]

9. Ticks of domestic animals - Wikipedia

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   These ticks, commonly known as cattle ticks or blue ticks, have a highly characteristic morphology and one-host lifecycle. They have high specificity for cattle as hosts and their morphological characteristics used for identification are less distinct than those of three-host rhipicephalids such as R. appendiculatus .