They were collected by Upstate Medical University researchers at Green Lakes State Park as part of a research study to see what diseases ticks carry and what synergistic effects those diseases might produce in the bodies of animals, including humans, bitten by ticks.N.

Of the 748 black-legged ticks sent over this spring and summer that had been attached to humans, nearly 16% of them were pulled off the thigh.

Upstate’s Citizen Science Tick Testing Program, which started last year, added a question in March asking people who mailed in ticks to describe where on the body the tick was found.

Black-legged, or deer, ticks can carry multiple diseases, including Lyme, anaplasmosis, miyamotoi and the rare but potentially fatal Powassan virus.

Adult ticks are larger and thus easier to find and remove, but are more likely to carry disease than nymphs.

Neither the dog nor the lone star tick transmits the Lyme bacteria, but they can pass on other diseases.

The most common is the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, which was found in about 27% of black-legged, or deer, ticks.

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