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Angelica
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I found an attached engorged tick on the neighbors cat yesterday.

It looked all grey and fat and happy.

I thought black legged ticks were black and red. Could this tick have been a black legged tick and do they turn grey when feeding or is this a different kind of tick?
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Mine were large, like the size of the eraser on the back of a pencil (maybe a little smaller though)...

....but they weren't greyish/light in color, they were more like a medium brown, even when they were very engorged. As I recall, they didn't look greyish.

This was in Florida. So were those deer ticks?

I saw a picture of an engorged tick on someone's head yesterday, and the first thing I thought was that mine looked much darker.

A different species perhaps? Regional variation? Anyone know?

Under "e" in the picture, mine looked like the one on the left. So does that mean mine was male and the one that I saw a picture of yesterday must have been female because it was lighter?
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