Increasing your knowledge about ticks and tick encounters will make you better prepared to protect yourself and others.

Increase your knowledge to prevent tick-borne disease Think TICK... Take ACTION || Tick Identification || Tick Testing || Tick Removal || Patient Profiles || Tick Biteology || Diseases

Compare your tick with those in chart. Each picture in the chart depicts the tick's actual size. Left click a tick image for more information.

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Are you concerned about the serious health threat caused by ticks?

Would you like to make appropriate tick-borne diseases prevention programming more widely available? If you answered yes to these questions, please consider supporting the Tick Encounter Resource Center at the University of Rhode Island. Proceeds help support tick-bite prevention programs.