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Just curious while watching the snow fall. Whats the longest possible time a tick can possibly stay attached before it willingly lets go to continue its life cycle or die from old age??????
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Pinelady
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Indefinite. I have had to dig some out that I
thought were fossilized already. The tiny ones can
burrow under the skin. And can be missed. I
remember one man when I was a kid who died and they
did not know what had made him so sick. It was
discovered he had a tick under the skin on his
back and they ruled cause of death tick bite.
That was 40 years ago.
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Interesting, Pinelady - so any size tick could stay embedded for awhile?
I had read it was 10 or 11 days max for an adult female.
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Pinelady
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They said his was covered by skin and has developed into a cyst. How long it too it to kill him I do
not know. I am suprised I even remember it. I do remember us kids talking about how they could have
missed a big tick burrowed under the skin on his back. He was a well know man about town. Maybe they thought it was something else.
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