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Tick - Dermacentor variabilis
Copyright © 2009 John F. Carr

Tick - Dermacentor variabilis
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 31, 2009
Size: 5 mm
I think this is the same squirrel as

but the tick may be different. There's been one tick in the ear for a month. It shifts position slightly (or drops off before swelling up and a new one reattaches in the same ear near the same spot). There's a raw spot below the current attachment point. The tick only started swelling in the past few days.

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 1 June, 2009 - 9:32am
Last updated 8 December, 2009 - 7:40pm

Moved
Moved from Hard Ticks.
… John F. Carr, 8 December, 2009 - 7:40pm

Dermacentor
This looks like a female D. variabilis, as in the previously referenced post. I shouldn't be the same tick after all this time; that must just be the sweet spot on that ear.
… Jon Oliver, 5 June, 2009 - 3:51pm

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