Baby Ticks?

[Descartes]

I had a delivery of books on my front door a couple of days ago that had probably been there for at least 6 hours or so. Upon taking the boxes into my office, I noticed these very, very tiny little bugs crawling on top of the box. This is a bit disgusting, but I commenced their demise and noticed a fair amount of what appeared to be blood.

I can't really explain what they look like, but they do somewhat look like ticks. I have two cats, so I'm wondering if I should go through the trouble of getting my house bombed? For what it's worth, my cats are inside animals and I have never had a tick problem.

Thanks.

 

[djheater]

I don't really know the life cycle of ticks, but I can tell you that when you get baby ticks on you it's not one or two it's more like 10-20.

 

[blackdogdeek]

deer ticks are very small iirc. are the cats outdoor cats?

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
deer ticks are very small iirc. are the cats outdoor cats?

As noted above, they're inside cats. I'm certain the box brought in the ticks, if in fact that's what they are.

 

[shiner]

May not have been ticks. I noticed what I thought were baby ticks all over my driveway this weekend while I was mowing. I snagged a couple with some tweezers and did some inspecting. Turns out they were a spider of some sort. They were very small and looked like ticks. Some were brown, some were a reddish color. While I was looking at them with a magnifying glass one of my neighbors came over to borrow my air compressor. He took a look at them and verified they were spiders. He's an older guy, 80 something, and is a fanatic about his yard and the creepy crawlies that live in it so I trust what he says. Shortly after I found out what they were I sent them all to spider hell. That was another thing that helped me believe they were not ticks?..they died too easily. Since we are in the same geographical area I think you might have had the same thing.

 

[blackdogdeek]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
deer ticks are very small iirc. are the cats outdoor cats?

As noted above, they're inside cats. I'm certain the box brought in the ticks, if in fact that's what they are.

oops, i even looked back at the part about the inside cats and for some reason didn't register it.

 

[djheater]

spiders have 8 legs ticks have six.

Whoops, I'm wrong they are arachnids after all... the extra legs must be vestigial... European ticks appear to have the extra legs.

 

[djheater]

this explains it better

 

[Jzero]

I thought ticks also had 8?

Either way, they sound like spider mites....baby spiders. Perhaps there were spiders living in the books or box?

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Jzero
I thought ticks also had 8?

Either way, they sound like spider mites....baby spiders. Perhaps there were spiders living in the books or box?

I hope. After living in a townhome infested with brown recluse spiders, I'm not exactly happy about that either, but it's better than ticks

 

[Insane3D]

Awwwwwwwww....baby ticks are soooooo cute!