Deer Ticks Northern Michigan

[Beverley S. LaLonde]

I have lived in Northern MI for 72 years and have never gotten a tick on me, let alone my dogs, or ever seen one.

 In four days I found one one on Ms. Chloe right by her eye. Three on me working in my yard, one in dryer lint as change clothes and right in the washer when I come in. Unbelievable watch your doodles gang!  I am grooming all four to 1/2 inch one down three to go. Bev & Pack

[Pat and Traveler]

Ugh!  Sorry to hear about the ticks!

[Star and Goldie]

I live in Indiana and there are lots of ticks in our backyard. I thought they were deer ticks but they are American Dog Ticks aka Wood Ticks which thankfully aren't the Lyme disease transmitters like deer ticks are. I took a picture of one I pulled off Goldie and did an image search of its kind. I was sooo relieved it wasn't a deer tick since it was in between her flea/ tick treatments

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Maps vary for States as to population of Deer Ticks and recently reports that Deer Tick populations are increasing and moving East in the US.

As for ticks there are so many varieties.  

There are about 90 types of tick species found in North America. Of these 90, there are 10 species of the soft ticks family and the rest 80 belong to the hard tick family. Let us know more about the different types of ticks.
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-ticks.html

Deer ticks are TINY! 

The following link has pictures so you can identify the ticks you are seeing.

http://tickinfo.com/

It truly is important to identify what type so you know what diseases they carry, how it could negatively effect you or the dogs.

I''m wondering if these are Deer Ticks?  If not, what type are they?  At this time, Deer Ticks are very rare in Michigan.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

In Michigan there are five common ticks found

1. American Dog Tick
2. Brown Dog Tick
3. Black Legged Tick
4. Woodchuck Tick
5. Lone Star Tick

http://michigan.gov/documents/emergingdiseases/5commonticks_282020_...

[Star and Goldie]

YAY! Where I live in Indiana is white on that deer tick map- minimal or no risk :)

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

For Lyme Disease but you should see ALL the other horrible diseases other types of ticks can give you. Just letting you know dont get a false sense of security from no Deer Ticks.
I found these maps a bit outdated as Ohio reported new findings of Deer Tick in the past 5 years and the population is migrating East and growing here in my area.

[Star and Goldie]

Oh yeah of course I don't have any false sense of security. My dogs are on tick preventatives and I check my daughter daily. That was more of a yay I was right since I thought we didn't have deer ticks in this area but never knew there was such a map out there.

[Heather and Hattye]

We live in Virginia in a high risk area and the ticks are HORRIBLE! I pull 3 a day, on average, off of Hattye. We have frontline and a preventick collar on her and nothing works! My kids have had 8 or 9 each, too. We just can't get away from them. I've lived here my whole life and I never remember it being this bad!

[Suzanne & Jack]

We're in Indiana and the ticks have been horrible. Nearly every time we go near the woods at our DP I pull at least 3 ticks off our schnauzer. I pulled 2 off Jack the other day. I've pulled a few off me. It's really gross. I'll be glad when tick season is over here.

[Cathy, Fozzie & Shaggy]

WOW, thanks for the heads-up!!!  I have never found a tick on any of my dogs in 40+ years in MI or any on me.  I will watch MUCH more colsely now though!