Where can I find information on ticks?

Question

I live in Maine and found a tick in our laundry and want to know if it is one that carried Lyme disease.

Answer 1

Identification of ticks
http://medent.usyd.edu.au/fact/ticks.htm

[more tick identification sites]
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijd/vol2n1/tick.xml
http://www.oes.org/html/how_2_identify_different_ticks.html
http://www.westchestergov.com/health/IdentifytheDeerTick.htm
http://www.aldf.com/index.shtml

Answer 2

Well, unless this tick bit you and infected you (or someone close to you), there'd be no real way of telling if he/she (the tick) carries Lyme disease. Many ticks can and do carry this.. particularly in New England. I mean, it's called Lyme disease because the first person with it was in Lyme, Ct. Of course, there's also "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.. also carried by ticks and not just in the Rockies: I got it in CT when I was about 16!
You can send the tick, should you still have it, to the local health department.. don't know if they'll test it but, could be?

Answer 3

The only way to determine if the tick you found is carrying lyme is to take to a pathologist. Generally speaking ticks are just parasites. Lyme's only occurs in about 10-30% of the US, and then only in a small percentage of wood tick population.. Being able to discern between a deer tick and a common brown tick provide a bit more insight. Good ol' hounddog wood ticks are the common variety. the Deer tick are not. I hate ticks nothing worse then coming home from a day of hunting or fishing and feeling something crawling on you.
If you have questions about it's species send to your state etomologist..

Answer 4

Here is a good place to start:

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Oasis/6455/ticks-links.html

You have nothing to worry about as long as the tick doesn't attach itself to you.

Answer 5

Try this site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick

Answer 6

after you look at all those links here is one about lyme disease

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/

Answer 7

Google is always a good place to start.

Answer 8

www.pestproducts.com/ticks1.htm

This is a pretty good site

Answer 9

go to any search engine image file and look up dear tick

http://www.magyver.com/images/dear_tick.jpg

Answer 10

Have you tried mayoclinic.com or webmd.com