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|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.

|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.

|Source        = http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ixodes_ricinus_ticks.jpg

|Source        = http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ixodes_ricinus_ticks.jpg

|Date          = 1975

|Date          = 1975

|Author        = WHO

|Author        = WHO

|Permission    = 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. {{PD-USGov-HHS-CDC}} 

|Permission    = 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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