lonestar

Spring has sprung! Warmer weather leads to outdoor activity and that can mean exposure to ticks. Ticks are active YEAR-ROUND and tick reports are ramping up for spring. Even with some colder days in the forecast, those ticks will be alive and kicking. 

We are in the thick of it… or TICK of it. Tick season is all year long, but we have been receiving a high volume of tick reports this spring. Prevention should always be your first line of defense. But if you are bitten , it can be helpful to have the tick tested for pathogens. OSU now has a tick testing lab for just such a purpose.

Tick Awareness is important.  In part 1, we covered the tick reports received that week: American Dog Tick and Deer Tick.  Today, we will dive deeper into other the other medically important tick, the Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum).  While I haven't received a report of them yet this year, don't count them out.

 

LONE STAR TICK

 

The Lone Star Tick, as other ticks, is a blood-feeding, parasitic, 8-legged arthropod.  Lone Star Tick gets its name from the...