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<div><br></div><div>Regarding James Hirtle's "tiny wood ticks?" it would be more important first to get the ticks identified first -- I don't believe wood ticks or dog ticks carry the spirochete bacterium that causes Lyme Disease -- the vector of that malady is what we used to call the deer tick but now is referred to as the black-legged tick, which is much smaller than a wood or dog tick in the adult stage. In any case, people finding ticks of any kind should still be keeping them and getting them to local offices of Dept. of Nat. Resources, or directly to Jeff Ogden at the Shubenacadie Forest Insect Lab of NSDNR or to Andrew Hebda at the N.S. Museum of Nat. History in Halifax, 1747 Summer St.<div><br></div><div>Cheers? in tick season from Jim in Wolfville<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Gayle MacLean <<a href="mailto:duartess2003@yahoo.ca">duartess2003@yahoo.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">April 21, 2009 12:33:50 AM ADT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">naturelist <<a href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>[NatureNS] re: Ticks</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit; "><div>Wood ticks found on your skin? I'd seriously be considering getting tested for Lyme. </div><div>If Jeff Ogden (tick expert)is reading this, what would he suggest?</div><div> </div><div>Gayle MacLean</div><div>Dartmouth</div><div><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>