Diana Lyn
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alikat99 said:OMG - I never knew that they could do that kind of research on a little tick!! And, no thank you, I would NOT want a tick mailed to my house.![]()
Just a little incentive for you guys to stay on my good side!
It's amazing all the info out there on ticks. This was a deer tick, that much I'm sure of. The concern for me is we have a lot of deer in this neighborhood and that's where the ticks that transmit lyme disease get it from. Fortunatlely it's takes 36 hours for a tick to transmit the bacteria. This guy wasn't in her for more than a few hours. That's your tick lesson for the night folks.
Don't forget to check out your loved ones before they climb into bed tonight! 
Great news, Julia is totally fine today and her little friend will be mailed off in the morning.
It's amazing the technology that exists. You mail a dead bug off to a lab and they send you a report about it--what type of tick it is, what stage of it's life it was in before Bruce went and murdered it, how much blood it sucked out of my poor baby daughter. They'll even be able to tell me how long it was on her.
I know it's wasn't more than 4 hours because I changed her diaper after her nap and it wasn't there then.


