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*'''''Nymph undergoes ecdyses forming the adult'''''
*'''''Nymph undergoes ecdyses forming the adult'''''
||[[Arachnida#Life Cycle|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
||[[Arachnida#Life Cycle|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
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==<font color="purple">Ticks</font>==
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!width="400"|'''Question'''
!width="400"|'''Answer'''
!width="150"|'''Article'''
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|<big>'''What are seed ticks?'''
|<big>'''What are seed ticks?'''
*'''''Tick larvae'''''
*'''''Tick larvae'''''
||[[Arachnida#Life Cycle|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
||[[Arachnida#Life Cycle|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
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|<big>'''How can you differentiate hard ticks from soft ticks?'''
||<font color="white"> <big>
*'''''Soft ticks have no scutum'''''
*'''''The mouthparts are not visible from the dorsal surface of soft ticks'''''
*'''''Hard ticks have festoons'''''
*'''''Hard ticks can be ornate'''''
||[[Suborder: Metastigmata, ticks#Morphology|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
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|<big>'''True or False: Soft ticks can swell up to three times their body size whilst taking a blood meal'''
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*'''''False'''''
*'''''Soft ticks feed little and often and cannot expand to three times their body size whilst feeding'''''
*'''''Female hard ticks can swell up to three times their body size whilst engorging on a blood meal'''''
||[[Suborder: Metastigmata, ticks#Morphology|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
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|<big>'''List the mouthparts of ticks'''
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*'''''Hypostome'''''
*'''''Chelicerae'''''
*'''''Palps'''''
||[[Suborder: Metastigmata, ticks#Mouthparts|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
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|<big>'''Fill in the missing words about soft and hard ticks'''
||<big>Soft ticks feed <font color="white">'''''little and often'''''</font> and on <font color="white">'''''many hosts'''''</font>. Hard ticks take <font color="white">'''''one'''''</font> blood meal at each <font color="white">'''''life cycle stage'''''</font> and can feed on <font color="white">'''''one, two or three different hosts'''''</font> during their life cycle.
||[[Suborder: Metastigmata, ticks#Life Cycle|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]]
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==<font color="purple">Mites</font>==
==<font color="purple">Mites</font>==