File:Ticks mating.jpg

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Ticks_mating.jpg(625 × 599 pixels, file size: 61 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Description

This is a male Ixodes ricinus tick (smaller) shown copulating with a female tick (larger). I. ricinus, the "castor bean" tick, so called because of its resemblance to the castor bean, is a vector for the B. burgdorferi spirochete, the cause of Lyme disease, and is commonly found on farm animals, and deer who are the natural host.

Date

1975

Source

CDC; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ixodes_ricinus_ticks.jpg

Author

WHO

Permission
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Copyright Restrictions: None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions. As a matter of courtesy we request that the content provider be credited and notified in any public or private usage of this image.

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current14:19, 30 November 2008Thumbnail for version as of 14:19, 30 November 2008625 × 599 (61 KB)Nabrown (talk | contribs)This is a male Ixodes ricinus tick (smaller) shown copulating with a female tick (larger). I. ricinus, the "castor bean" tick, so called because of its resemblance to the castor bean, is a vector for the B. burgdorferi spirochete, the cause of Lyme diseas

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