Pest Organisms / Blacklegged Tick
Lookalikes
for Blacklegged Tick
It is most often confused with the American dog tick, a bigger brown tick whose shield carries a marbled gray-and-tan pattern, and with the female lone star tick, marked by a single silvery dot on her back. The blacklegged tick wears no such ornamentation, and at every stage it runs smaller than the ticks it gets mistaken for. Source: https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-2073