{"id":20874,"date":"2019-08-02T21:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T01:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/?p=20874"},"modified":"2021-04-02T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T03:51:07","slug":"de-tick-with-duct-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/tick-notes\/de-tick-with-duct-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"De-Tick With Duct Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a TickSmart Tip for August & September<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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In August and September especially, we receive a lot of questions about larvae tick encounters.<\/strong> Late summer is when you’re most likely to encounter an egg-batch’s worth of larval stage deer (blacklegged) or Lone Star (seed) ticks. These six-legged larvae hatch from egg masses that can contain 3,000 or more eggs that all hatch at about the same time. That’s why people more frequently encounter a tick swarm instead of a single larval tick. Some people call it a tick nest but it’s really just all of the eggs from one female hatching all in the same place. The good news about larval deer and Lone Star ticks is that they (mostly) hatch from eggs as germ-free ticks. We’ll get to the mostly part in a minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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