{"id":11,"date":"2015-07-31T11:27:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T16:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/?p=11"},"modified":"2015-07-31T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T16:47:30","slug":"seed-ticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/seed-ticks\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;seed ticks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While going for a nature walk in Logoly State Park last week, I must have stepped in a tick nest. A few hours after our hike, I found dozens of nymph-stage ticks (I think deer or dog ticks) all over my ankles, feet, legs, thighs and derriere. They were such small dark specs that I could not make out what kind of bug they were, but I saved a few of them and took a look under the scope. They are definitely tiny ticks, what I later found are referred to a &#8220;seed ticks&#8221;, the nymph stage of either deer or dog ticks:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/IMG_0082.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/IMG_0082-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0082\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/IMG_0082-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/IMG_0082-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/IMG_0082-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/07\/IMG_0082-1280x853.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day after my encounter, I was increasingly itchy all over and found hundreds of bites across my body (I&#8217;ll spare you the pictures). Today, three days later, I am still applying lots of anti-itch creams and trying not to scratch. Vinegar helps with immediate relief, but the creams are longer-lasting. Anyhow, watch out for these!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While going for a nature walk in Logoly State Park last week, I must have stepped in a tick nest. A few hours after our hike, I found dozens of nymph-stage ticks (I think deer or dog ticks) all over my ankles, feet, legs, thighs and derriere. They were such small dark specs that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/aetucker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}