Sadly, I am sure.It was about a month ago and I never got the bulls-eye. I removed the bugger w. my special tweezers and put it into a small bottle of alcohol. My doc now has the bottle and specimen, which he will use for Lyme disease Show and Tell.
I had a Western Blot done because I had had Lyme once before and so now test low positive. This time I am fine; but everyone in Columbia County, NY, which is alleged to be the epicenter of Lyme in the country, knows what the nymph and adult Lyme and Dog ticks look like.
When we garden now, we practically wear Hazmat suits (preferably in white). My bro-in-law got ehrlichiosis and was miserable for several months. Last week, I picked off an adult tick from my cat, who has been Frontlined, and it was clearly a lyme tick. There is a distinctive sheen and reddish color to a part of the body.
And they are now showing up in winter, if the snow is melted. They hibernate on blades of grass and attach themselves on us in the damnest places. I wish that I were not an expert.
And we have found the nymph sized critters on my four-year old nephew when he went blueberrying here last August. They look like ground pepper; the adults are about the size of the flax seeds that I grind for breakfast.
Yuck. Gail