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− | |Description = This is a male '' | + | {{Information |
− | |Source = http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ixodes_ricinus_ticks.jpg | + | |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 = CDC; 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. | + | |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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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. |
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CDC; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ixodes_ricinus_ticks.jpg |
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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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current | 14:19, 30 November 2008 | 625 × 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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