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(Amblyomma americanum)
The Lone Star Tick is primarily found from Texas, North to
Missouri and Eastward across the Southeastern United States, as
well as up the East coast to New Jersey and New York. Larvae, nymphs and adults will feed on a variety of
warm-blooded hosts, including people. The larva is very tiny, only
a little larger than the period at the end of this sentence. The
nymph, the most common stage found on people, is about
pinhead-sized. Adults are about 1/8-inch long and brown. The adult
female has a white spot in the middle of her back. Because they
are so similar in size, the lone star tick is sometimes
misidentified by laypersons as the blacklegged / deer tick.
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