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Ticks were bad last year in NH, but not 5 ticks on a stick bad: https://imgur.com/a/bGdAvLD

Photo taken yesterday. I bought some old farmland and it has been a completely insane year so far for ticks. I wish I could do a prescribed burn of the field but it's not well set up for that.

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The good news there, is that none of those appear to be deer ticks (lyme carriers). If my amateur eye is correct, those are dog ticks.

I concur, and photo evidence backs this up:

https://extension.umaine.edu/ipm/tickid/tick-photos/

Any tick species can carry infections (Lyme, Bartonella, Babesia, etc), not just the deer tick.

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