What kind of tick? - Ask Extension
Please help me identify this tick. Upper Marlboro MD the picture is the tick is on a piece of notebook paper.
Thanks!
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What kind of tick? #871039
Asked June 01, 2024, 10:28 AM EDT
Please help me identify this tick. Upper Marlboro MD the picture is the tick is on a piece of notebook paper.
Thanks!
Prince George's County Maryland
Expert Response
Your tick is bloated, indicating that it has fed for a time.
Our entomologist is not in this morning so we can't give a definite identification, but here is our Ticks in Maryland page, which has options to mail it out for identification as well as a program that will test it for pathogens for a fee:
https://extension.umd.edu/resource/ticks-maryland/
Christine
Our entomologist is not in this morning so we can't give a definite identification, but here is our Ticks in Maryland page, which has options to mail it out for identification as well as a program that will test it for pathogens for a fee:
https://extension.umd.edu/resource/ticks-maryland/
Christine
Based on your photos this is likely either a brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) or an asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis). We cannot tell for sure based on the photos.
The Johns Hopkins Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute has a tick identification service where you can mail them your tick. Please see their webpage for more information: https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/OIDEOR/CZVBD/Pages/Tick-Identification.aspx.
