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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 = CDC; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ixodes_ricinus_ticks.jpg
|Date = 1975
|Date = 1975
|Author = WHO
|Author = WHO