Question by petals: Are tick eggs hard or soft?
I applied frontline plus to my two dogs and my found cat (of one week — who was mostly left confined to a bathroom for about a week) … I applied it to one dog in my bedroom because she hates fireworks and is very old now, and was there with me, afraid. I only use the stuff during summer months, and i have NEVER found a tick on my pets.

I was doing laundry, and had some things on the floor. I picked up some of the items and put them on my bed — nothing unusual with me doing that. I was sorting. I went about some other things, and at some point I found a big black tick on one of the items, on my bed.

I was frieking, not knowing if it was the cat or what (whom i had let come lay on my bed finally). And how did it get there, i just bought that item at a thrift store and had tried it on. Maybe it was there when i tried it on?!

I went in the kitchen where the older dog was lying on her comforter. I found a tick crawling across the floor, another big black one. Later, there was another.

Today, I found one on my bed again, on a little fleece baby blanket that i use to wrap around my neck while i sleep, mostly in the winter. I don’t recall if it had fallen onto the floor at night, but i think not. I had a rough time getting to bed last night. I had to remove the top comforter due to the ee-bee gee-bees. (i had vacuumed my bedroom before sleeping)

I found another one dead on the kitchen floor tonight after that little episode with the blankie.

I have 4 live ones in a jar, two dead ones from kitchen, and one more found when i decided i had to strip the bed just now (i use two sheets, he was in between them — appeared dead but they move slowly, so flushed him).

They appear to me to be the deer tick but i don’t know. I am guessing that they came off of the dog, but i don’t know. I bathed them all before the treatments. I found some stuff stuck in the cats fur. To me, it looks like some plant seed, but now i gotta know, are those tick eggs? They are small and brown, and hard as a walnut. I figured a plant seed, but now i am frieking about that too.

I had already purchased a spray for around the house, just in case for fleas— Mycodex Plus — a photostable residual product for control of fleas and ticks. Has linolool/1.000% active ingredient … and permathrin/0.200%. The stuff is sickening smelling, but i thought i had better get it. Thought i had it in a pump before, but this is a spray. I hate using toxins. I sprayed living room and bedroom.

I don’t know if i can live here anymore … I fogged my garage recently, due to spider issues. I am wondering …. where in the world did all of these ticks come from!! I don’t live in the woods, i do have a large garden. I keep that clean, I work in it all the time and have never picked up a tick to my knowledge. And now it seems these buggers can live quite a while in here without blood. I have a constant case of eebee gee-bees now feeling stuff on my body that isn’t there.

What can I do? And now, eggs… None of the ones that i have found look gorged at all. Seems that the frontline plus made them fall from the dog? I thought it killed them. They are still very alive in the jar, one day later. And also, could that medicine have caused some that were feeding to remain stuck and dead in the dog? And also, the young ones, i read you can’t even see them!

Sorry about the length of this post/question. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Oh, and yes, tomorrow i will take the jar to the vet. I will not put the dog in my car though, not yet.
I live in Indiana. Not sure if deer tick is here. The ticks are about the size of an apple seed, and black with a long neck i would say. The “eggs” were hard and about the size of a stick pin head, or the top part of a pen.
THEY ARE BEETLES lol … took the jar with 4 of them to the vet … beetles ;-P

Best answer:

Answer by Kirsten
Ha. Pretty funny, both your story, and my reaction to your question. I saw the question and thought it interesting (about whether the eggs were hard or soft shelled) and started researching without reading the rest of your question first.

Anyway, what I found seems to suggest the eggs are soft shelled. I found a photo of larval ticks hatching and it looked to me like the shells were split open but not brittle enough to have cracked into pieces. Here’s the article with that photo: http://www.ccwhc.ca/wildlife_health_topics/winter_tick/wintertick.php They also appear to be significantly smaller than what you described, but then we now know those were beetles, not ticks.

Anyway, I thought the answer interesting, even though you had already solved your mystery, so decided to share it anyway.

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Question by petals: Are tick eggs hard or soft?
I applied frontline plus to my two dogs and my found cat (of one week — who was mostly left confined to a bathroom for about a week) … I applied it to one dog in my bedroom because she hates fireworks and is very old now, and was there with me, afraid. I only use the stuff during summer months, and i have NEVER found a tick on my pets.

I was doing laundry, and had some things on the floor. I picked up some of the items and put them on my bed — nothing unusual with me doing that. I was sorting. I went about some other things, and at some point I found a big black tick on one of the items, on my bed.

I was frieking, not knowing if it was the cat or what (whom i had let come lay on my bed finally). And how did it get there, i just bought that item at a thrift store and had tried it on. Maybe it was there when i tried it on?!

I went in the kitchen where the older dog was lying on her comforter. I found a tick crawling across the floor, another big black one. Later, there was another.

Today, I found one on my bed again, on a little fleece baby blanket that i use to wrap around my neck while i sleep, mostly in the winter. I don’t recall if it had fallen onto the floor at night, but i think not. I had a rough time getting to bed last night. I had to remove the top comforter due to the ee-bee gee-bees. (i had vacuumed my bedroom before sleeping)

I found another one dead on the kitchen floor tonight after that little episode with the blankie.

I have 4 live ones in a jar, two dead ones from kitchen, and one more found when i decided i had to strip the bed just now (i use two sheets, he was in between them — appeared dead but they move slowly, so flushed him).

They appear to me to be the deer tick but i don’t know. I am guessing that they came off of the dog, but i don’t know. I bathed them all before the treatments. I found some stuff stuck in the cats fur. To me, it looks like some plant seed, but now i gotta know, are those tick eggs? They are small and brown, and hard as a walnut. I figured a plant seed, but now i am frieking about that too.

I had already purchased a spray for around the house, just in case for fleas— Mycodex Plus — a photostable residual product for control of fleas and ticks. Has linolool/1.000% active ingredient … and permathrin/0.200%. The stuff is sickening smelling, but i thought i had better get it. Thought i had it in a pump before, but this is a spray. I hate using toxins. I sprayed living room and bedroom.

I don’t know if i can live here anymore … I fogged my garage recently, due to spider issues. I am wondering …. where in the world did all of these ticks come from!! I don’t live in the woods, i do have a large garden. I keep that clean, I work in it all the time and have never picked up a tick to my knowledge. And now it seems these buggers can live quite a while in here without blood. I have a constant case of eebee gee-bees now feeling stuff on my body that isn’t there.

What can I do? And now, eggs… None of the ones that i have found look gorged at all. Seems that the frontline plus made them fall from the dog? I thought it killed them. They are still very alive in the jar, one day later. And also, could that medicine have caused some that were feeding to remain stuck and dead in the dog? And also, the young ones, i read you can’t even see them!

Sorry about the length of this post/question. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Oh, and yes, tomorrow i will take the jar to the vet. I will not put the dog in my car though, not yet.
I live in Indiana. Not sure if deer tick is here. The ticks are about the size of an apple seed, and black with a long neck i would say. The “eggs” were hard and about the size of a stick pin head, or the top part of a pen.
THEY ARE BEETLES lol … took the jar with 4 of them to the vet … beetles ;-P

Best answer:

Answer by Kirsten
Ha. Pretty funny, both your story, and my reaction to your question. I saw the question and thought it interesting (about whether the eggs were hard or soft shelled) and started researching without reading the rest of your question first.

Anyway, what I found seems to suggest the eggs are soft shelled. I found a photo of larval ticks hatching and it looked to me like the shells were split open but not brittle enough to have cracked into pieces. Here’s the article with that photo: http://www.ccwhc.ca/wildlife_health_topics/winter_tick/wintertick.php They also appear to be significantly smaller than what you described, but then we now know those were beetles, not ticks.

Anyway, I thought the answer interesting, even though you had already solved your mystery, so decided to share it anyway.

Give your answer to this question below!

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by Tom Carmony

Question by petals: Are tick eggs hard or soft?
I applied frontline plus to my two dogs and my found cat (of one week — who was mostly left confined to a bathroom for about a week) … I applied it to one dog in my bedroom because she hates fireworks and is very old now, and was there with me, afraid. I only use the stuff during summer months, and i have NEVER found a tick on my pets.

I was doing laundry, and had some things on the floor. I picked up some of the items and put them on my bed — nothing unusual with me doing that. I was sorting. I went about some other things, and at some point I found a big black tick on one of the items, on my bed.

I was frieking, not knowing if it was the cat or what (whom i had let come lay on my bed finally). And how did it get there, i just bought that item at a thrift store and had tried it on. Maybe it was there when i tried it on?!

I went in the kitchen where the older dog was lying on her comforter. I found a tick crawling across the floor, another big black one. Later, there was another.

Today, I found one on my bed again, on a little fleece baby blanket that i use to wrap around my neck while i sleep, mostly in the winter. I don’t recall if it had fallen onto the floor at night, but i think not. I had a rough time getting to bed last night. I had to remove the top comforter due to the ee-bee gee-bees. (i had vacuumed my bedroom before sleeping)

I found another one dead on the kitchen floor tonight after that little episode with the blankie.

I have 4 live ones in a jar, two dead ones from kitchen, and one more found when i decided i had to strip the bed just now (i use two sheets, he was in between them — appeared dead but they move slowly, so flushed him).

They appear to me to be the deer tick but i don’t know. I am guessing that they came off of the dog, but i don’t know. I bathed them all before the treatments. I found some stuff stuck in the cats fur. To me, it looks like some plant seed, but now i gotta know, are those tick eggs? They are small and brown, and hard as a walnut. I figured a plant seed, but now i am frieking about that too.

I had already purchased a spray for around the house, just in case for fleas— Mycodex Plus — a photostable residual product for control of fleas and ticks. Has linolool/1.000% active ingredient … and permathrin/0.200%. The stuff is sickening smelling, but i thought i had better get it. Thought i had it in a pump before, but this is a spray. I hate using toxins. I sprayed living room and bedroom.

I don’t know if i can live here anymore … I fogged my garage recently, due to spider issues. I am wondering …. where in the world did all of these ticks come from!! I don’t live in the woods, i do have a large garden. I keep that clean, I work in it all the time and have never picked up a tick to my knowledge. And now it seems these buggers can live quite a while in here without blood. I have a constant case of eebee gee-bees now feeling stuff on my body that isn’t there.

What can I do? And now, eggs… None of the ones that i have found look gorged at all. Seems that the frontline plus made them fall from the dog? I thought it killed them. They are still very alive in the jar, one day later. And also, could that medicine have caused some that were feeding to remain stuck and dead in the dog? And also, the young ones, i read you can’t even see them!

Sorry about the length of this post/question. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Oh, and yes, tomorrow i will take the jar to the vet. I will not put the dog in my car though, not yet.
I live in Indiana. Not sure if deer tick is here. The ticks are about the size of an apple seed, and black with a long neck i would say. The “eggs” were hard and about the size of a stick pin head, or the top part of a pen.
THEY ARE BEETLES lol … took the jar with 4 of them to the vet … beetles ;-P

Best answer:

Answer by Kirsten
Ha. Pretty funny, both your story, and my reaction to your question. I saw the question and thought it interesting (about whether the eggs were hard or soft shelled) and started researching without reading the rest of your question first.

Anyway, what I found seems to suggest the eggs are soft shelled. I found a photo of larval ticks hatching and it looked to me like the shells were split open but not brittle enough to have cracked into pieces. Here’s the article with that photo: http://www.ccwhc.ca/wildlife_health_topics/winter_tick/wintertick.php They also appear to be significantly smaller than what you described, but then we now know those were beetles, not ticks.

Anyway, I thought the answer interesting, even though you had already solved your mystery, so decided to share it anyway.

Give your answer to this question below!

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Question by eleon: White Squishy Eggs found in my garden?
I live in California so the weather is warm now. On Saturday I was doing some weeding and trimming in my garden when suddenly I noticed a peachy color mesh or delicate sock looking thing. I was wearing my gardening gloves so started moving it around then noticed a white egg right under it. I started moving the egg then started noticing more eggs slightly covered in dirt. There must have been about 10 of those things all near each other on the edge of my flower garden. I threw all of them in the trash bag and was just too freaked out to keep working on my garden. Then on Monday I was watering my garden when I noticed another one of that peachy color mesh or sock looking thing still attached to an egg. It was in the same area I had found the Saturday ones. For this one as soon as I moved the sock looking thing with my water hose it broke off the egg so it looked like this one had already hatched. These were all soft squishy eggs and I’ve heard reptile eggs are soft so I was thinking could these be from a snake, lizard, or gecko…Eww. All kinds of things were going through my mind. I do enjoy maintaining my garden but now I’m just too scared to even go out there to water my garden. My husband and I are always out there on the weekends doing something to our lawn or garden so it’s well maintained. I was getting tired of the weeding taking so much of my time tough so we had recently (in spring, about 4 months ago) put some mulch to prevent them and it really has. But in the last 4 – 6 weeks I’ve been struggling with the slimy snails eating my flowers. I sprayed some insect killing spray about 2 weeks ago but they just keep multiplying and I have a big garden going around my 800 sq ft lawn. I’ve been looking online to find out what could be laying these eggs in my garden and ran into some posts about slug and snail eggs so I was wondering if that’s what the eggs in my garden are. I’m hoping someone out there can knows what type of creature is laying these eggs.

Best answer:

Answer by Dancefly
Yep. Snails.

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Question by eleon: White Squishy Eggs found in my garden?
I live in California so the weather is warm now. On Saturday I was doing some weeding and trimming in my garden when suddenly I noticed a peachy color mesh or delicate sock looking thing. I was wearing my gardening gloves so started moving it around then noticed a white egg right under it. I started moving the egg then started noticing more eggs slightly covered in dirt. There must have been about 10 of those things all near each other on the edge of my flower garden. I threw all of them in the trash bag and was just too freaked out to keep working on my garden. Then on Monday I was watering my garden when I noticed another one of that peachy color mesh or sock looking thing still attached to an egg. It was in the same area I had found the Saturday ones. For this one as soon as I moved the sock looking thing with my water hose it broke off the egg so it looked like this one had already hatched. These were all soft squishy eggs and I’ve heard reptile eggs are soft so I was thinking could these be from a snake, lizard, or gecko…Eww. All kinds of things were going through my mind. I do enjoy maintaining my garden but now I’m just too scared to even go out there to water my garden. My husband and I are always out there on the weekends doing something to our lawn or garden so it’s well maintained. I was getting tired of the weeding taking so much of my time tough so we had recently (in spring, about 4 months ago) put some mulch to prevent them and it really has. But in the last 4 – 6 weeks I’ve been struggling with the slimy snails eating my flowers. I sprayed some insect killing spray about 2 weeks ago but they just keep multiplying and I have a big garden going around my 800 sq ft lawn. I’ve been looking online to find out what could be laying these eggs in my garden and ran into some posts about slug and snail eggs so I was wondering if that’s what the eggs in my garden are. I’m hoping someone out there can knows what type of creature is laying these eggs.

Best answer:

Answer by Dancefly
Yep. Snails.

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great food and good for you….!

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Answer by Bucket
Milk and eggs from the right source!

Dr. Chef.

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Question by Bradley: Why do some recipes work when beating egg and others don’t?
One sponge recipe will say to seperate the egg white, beat till forms a peak and then folk the yolk in later. Other recipes will say whisk up the whole egg till it is aerated etc. If you followed the recipe where you separate the egg white from the yolk and you accidentally got a bit of yolk in, then the fat from it will destroy the beating properties and it won’t aerate properly. Why is it different when beating the whole egg for a sponge which turns out with great success?

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Answer by peternal
Bradley, Bradley, don’t you know by now, that you’re not supposed to BEAT the eggs, but explain to them, how to cooperate with all the other ingredients…

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Answer by gone
dont know

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Answer by ladystang
grandmother’s hens always had their own

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