lone star ticks and dog ticks are relatively easy to spot as they are "big" in the grand scheme of things, but they are still pretty tiny. deer ticks, the primary carrier of lyme disease, are notoriously small and very hard to spot. as I understand, the really tiny ones (often referred to as "seed ticks" because they are the size of tiny seeds) are very unlikely to actually carry lyme disease because they will not have attached to a carrier yet (they aren't born with lyme disease), but I don't have a reference handy for that and I don't want any tick attached to me, big or small, in any case.
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