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This thing has bit me twice. It is incredibly small, about the size of a lower case o on a phone keyboard. It but me on my foot and neck. Both times I felt it immediately and it inflicted a painful sting. I had to pry it off my skin both times. The whole area got red almost immediately and after the red faded, a small white-ish bump was left. Overnight the bump turned into a red mark on the skin.
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- Submitted: Jul 3, 2018
- Photographed: Jul 3, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Menuel Antonio, Costa Rica
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
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Unsure if this is an adult or a nymph, but this isn’t quite a spider. This is a tick, identified by the massive body and tiny head, but ticks are in the arachnid family as well as scorpions and spiders. If it hurt and left a rash, though, I suggest you google what to do for certain tick reactions. Once you’ve pried it off and left it to die, take into consideration how long the tick was on your skin. Then, check to make sure your reaction is a normal reaction to a tick bite. It tends to depends person… Read more »
if not on you long then no worries. if bitten or the tick is attached to the skin and hard to get off, i would get a blood test done and see a physician, ticks carry lyme disease although lyme disease is often very obvious bulls eye shaped rashes on the skin…Lyme disease is usually caused by a bite from a deer tick. The disease can cause joint pain, aching muscles, and a tired feeling. There are two blood tests for Lyme disease, but usually you do not need them. Here’s why: You do not usually need tests to show… Read more »
It’s is a tick
The good news is that it wasn’t a deer tick, now called a “black-legged tick”. They don’t have white on them and the legs are black.