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(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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| − | 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 | |
| − | + | |Date = 1975 | |
| − | + | |Author = WHO | |
| − | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ixodes_ricinus_ticks.jpg | + | |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}} |
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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. |Source = http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ixodes_ricinus_ticks.jpg |Date = 1975 |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. Template:PD-USGov-HHS-CDC |Other_versions = }}
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