What species, tho? Doesn’t looked like a dog tick, which is more common here. Deer ticks are much smaller.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

The stripes can look like stripes or full blown rorschach inkblot nightmare images.

Going with male, American Dog Tick. Off that one photo.

https://bugguide.net/node/view/2347053/bgimage

Seems to be the consensus.

I believe you are right. Looks the part, common in my area, and we had a mild winter, so it’s going to be a tick-filled summer.