Downside To Lovely Wooded Homesite

As I wandered around my country yard and wood taking photos yesterday I knew that as soon as I came into the house afterward that I would have to do a careful search for ticks and throw my clothing into the washer set on hot for any stragglers that might still be wandering around them.  In the photo above is a fairly small tick that I removed from a rather private area.  I tried the suggested applying Hydrogen Peroxide which supposedly will make them release their feeding grip and back out from being embedded into your skin but like many other such suggestions it did not appear to work, so tweezers were the usual tool of removal.  I have been treated for Lyme disease , a tick born pathogen, several times and am always very aware of the risk of having ticks attach themselves to you when being out-doors where deer and mice abound.  The quicker that ticks are removed after attaching to ones self the lesser the odds are that any pathogen has been transmitted.  For a good over view of ticks and Lyme see:           http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/      or     http://www.medicinenet.com/lyme_disease/article.htm