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About 1cm long, shiny gun-metal grey, eight legs.
I think that it's a female tick full of little ticks waiting to burst out! A neighbour's cat had just visited us when I found it on the floor.
Spotted on Sep 10, 2014
Submitted on Sep 10, 2014
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The Bernhard Nocht Institue analysed this one - very advanced female (about to release the nymphs) - not infected :-)
Thanks Dan; looks good, since there are deer in the woods here. I wonder whether she is ready to release a few thousand little ticks.
Deer tick? This link should help http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_identi...