"We've been receiving a lot of questions about larvae tickencounters. Now's when you may encounter an egg-batch worth of larval stage deer (blacklegged) or Lone Star (seed) ticks. These six-legged larvae hatch from egg masses that can contain 3,000 or more eggs that all hatch at about the same time. That's why people more frequently encounter a tick swarm instead of a single larval tick. The good news about larval deer and Lone Star ticks is that they hatch from eggs as pathogen-free ticks. "
http://www.tickencounter.org/
