{"id":12756,"date":"2013-09-18T17:03:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ticks\/?p=12756"},"modified":"2022-09-19T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T15:12:01","slug":"five-ticks-to-watch-out-for-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/tick-notes\/five-ticks-to-watch-out-for-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ticks To Watch Out For This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fullwidth\">\n<p>Did you really think ticks were pretty much through for the year? Not so fast! And no matter if you live East, West, South or North, there&#8217;s still going to be plenty of opportunity to get bitten during the Fall. Fortunately, most of the ticks active during the Fall are the larger adult stages, so they&#8217;re easier to see and remove. But you&#8217;ve still got to look!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12756 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/slide-1-of-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"653\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-1-of-5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Adult Blacklegged Ticks (a.k.a Deer Tick) Loaded with pathogens, especially in the Northeast and Upper Mid-West, this tick can give you Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, and possibily relapsing fever borreliosis or a deer tick virus. Check for them daily especially from your waistline and up-front and back. In one Massachusetts study, 63% were found attached on the head and neck region. Their prefereed host is white tailed deer but they like people and pets as well.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-1-of-5.jpg 653w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-1-of-5-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-1-of-5-364x256.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-1-of-5-500x352.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/slide-2-of-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"653\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-2-of-5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Adult Western Blacklegged Ticks- A close cousin of the deer tick, this West Coast tick also transmits the agents causing Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis. Risk is a bit lower than our east, but this tick is especially common on hiking trails. They latch on about knee-height and crawl up, so be sure to tuck your shirt in, and for heaven&#039;s sake, wear tick repellent clothes.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-2-of-5.jpg 653w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-2-of-5-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-2-of-5-364x215.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-2-of-5-500x296.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/slide-3-of-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-3-of-5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Adult Gulf Coast Tick- Although you may not find it attached to you, this tick is a pest on cattle, horses and will readily bite dogs too. Females feed for 7-10 days then fall off engorged, after which they can lay an incredible 10,000 eggs or more. They transmit various rickettsial agents, including R. parkeri. While the GCT looks a lot like an American dog tick, it has a much longer mouthpart, if you want to look at that closely. Can be active thru October in Texas and along the Gulf Coast and during late fall and winter in OK and KS. This tick also has been spreading northward to VA.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-3-of-5.jpg 656w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-3-of-5-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-3-of-5-364x285.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-3-of-5-500x392.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/slide-4-of-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-4-of-5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Nymph Lone Star Ticks- About the size of an oval sesame seed but without the white spot. This tick may have taken the hottest part of the summer off but now it&#039;s back if only briefly in the Southeast and South Central regions of the U.S. It can give you a nasty bite if you let it, and it&#039;s fast and sneaky-attaching quickly and often leaving an itchy dime-sized red mark. It can transmit Ehrlichia chafeensis to people and E. canis to dogs...so don&#039;t forget your pet&#039;s tick preventer this fall\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-4-of-5.jpg 673w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-4-of-5-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-4-of-5-364x244.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-4-of-5-500x336.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/slide-5-of-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-5-of-5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Adult Brown Dog Ticks. This is the only tick that truly infests households-like cockroaches. Your dog can bring one or more home from a stay at the kennel, and they can just take over. Hiding in cracks and crevices, once they&#039;re in it takes coordinated, consistent action of extermination and effective pet tick control to eradicate them. While they can be found in any state, they&#039;re especially common across the South and Southwest, they&#039;re also THE tick of the Caribbean and Hawaii. BDT encounters usually turn into horror stories if you&#039;ve got one, we&#039;re listening...\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-5-of-5.jpg 651w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-5-of-5-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-5-of-5-364x330.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/slide-5-of-5-500x454.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you really think ticks were pretty much through for the year? Not so fast! And no matter if you live East, West, South or North, there&#8217;s still going to be plenty of opportunity to get bitten during the Fall. Fortunately, most of the ticks active during the Fall are the larger adult stages, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":5376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tick-notes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24383,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions\/24383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}