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It's here, and it's spreading. Glad she was seen for it.

Wow, I'm really sorry this happened. I read that it can disappear over time, but that varies. I really hope this happens to you. It sounds like such a pain.

Whoo. You do NOT want this one for sure. I'd rather be bitten by a thousand deer ticks. I am not sure this one has never been seen in humans though.

https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/guess-who.12956/page-2#post-154477

Super bummer. They look a lot like American dog ticks, but have much longer mouthparts and tend to be larger. You guys be on the lookout for these. They have a very painful bite.

What if it's Hoffa!?

W...T...F???

What....is in those jars?

Look in the areas with tall grass for the larvae, and in dead and rotting organic material (especially logs) for adult mites. The adults live close to the ground and are readily visible with the naked eye.

It was a long time ago, but we did get specimens of adult harvest mites (they are not the bitey stage) from that area. No photos, sorry to say.

We were unundated at the plane crash site near the Carranza memorial. Whoo doggie.

That's the thread I was thinking of!

I don't think so, there are plennnty of chiggers in the pines. (Strangely, I have not encountered any here in the midwest).

Nope. Chiggers are not baby ticks, they are the 6 legged larvae of the harvest mite, Trombicula. I recall vaguely someone posting that they thought they could see chiggers, and maybe even got a really close up look at them and they turned out to be larval lone star ticks. Chigger larvae are...

The people who were called that particular ethnic slur probably do, though.

No skin off my nose. It is apparently an ethnic slur. Nothing wrong with cultural evolution IMO.

That's an Ixodes scapularis female. JERK.

Oh for heaven's sake.

There are two standpipes in that graveyard that communicate with the mine fire and vent the gases, which lends to the fogginess, I think. It doesn't always smolder but it was that day. The graveyard is still active and accepting new clients, oddly enough.

We walked in about a half mile or so, it was kind of an interesting little hike between the piles of rubble. Someone took a lot of time trucking that in. It's quite an interesting place. Here are some more drone shots.