Pest Organisms / Blacklegged Tick
Inspection
for Blacklegged Tick
Inspect where the tick lives: wooded edges, shaded brushy borders, leaf-litter zones, trail margins, and the lawn-to-woods buffer, where questing ticks wait near the ground. Source: https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-0096 To take a tick off a person, use fine-tipped tweezers to grip it low where the mouthparts enter the skin, then draw it straight upward with slow, even force rather than twisting or yanking. Source: https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-2073