"If that dog walks through a spot where an egg sac has just hatched out, like I said there can be up to four thousand seed ...

They are smaller than the American dog ticks and almost equal to a sesame seed. They are reddish-brown and have reddish legs.

The largest tick may swell to the size of an apple seed after it feeds ... infection that spreads through the bite of the American dog tick, Rocky Mountain wood tick, and brown dog tick.