Nymph, male and female life stages of blacklegged ticks at the top, nymph and adult of the longhorned tick below, compared with poppy seeds. Native to China, Korea, Japan and Pacific islands and nations, the longhorned tick has only been known to science for about nine years and is thought to have been in the United States since at least 2010.
The Longhorned Tick or East Asian tick, has now been discovered in New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas and, recently, New York. New York residents are being urged to take the same precautions to protect themselves from the Longhorned Tick ( Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann) as they would to guard against the deer tick.
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