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Found it on my son's hair after a 10min visit to our veggies garden. My guess is that it might be a tick but we are not in an area of lime disease and although it's an open, rather unkept, field the only mammals I see around are 2-3 stray(?) cats.

The photo was done using a stereoscope+smartphone. The dark lines underneath are .4 to .5 mm.

Any pointers would be welcome.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is a good starting point, then you have this

https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-3305-3-26

And you can also search online for how to ID ticks, you have visual guides and such

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks! Had seen that paper once you guys pointed me to R. sanguineus and I had a chance to shower the kid.

I also found this site useful for ticks anatomy, on TicksSafety.com.