Question: what is the difference between dog tick and deer tick?
Answer: Know the difference between the deer tick which carries Lyme disease, and a dog tick, which does not carry the disease. The stages of Ixodes scapularis, the black-legged or deer tick: larva, nymph, adult. ... Top Row: Dermacentor variabilis, the American dog tick, which is not thought to transmit Lyme disease.