Hi,
They are engorged from feeding on a meal These adults actively seek new hosts throughout the fall, waiting up to 3 feet above the ground on stalks of grass or leaf tips to latch onto deer (its preferred host) or other larger mammals (including humans, dogs, cats, horses, and other domestic animals). They are tren brought into the home this way or they can crawl in.
As for how they will affect you, about 50% are known to carry lime disease they will attach them self to the host bury their heads into your skin and feed at this point they can transmit the lime disease. They can be removed with a pair of tweezers as close to the head as you can get and taken to the health department for testing of lime disease.
Walter
Edited by askwalt on April 25 2006 at 6:59pm__________________
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