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Hobro, Jylland, Danmark
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Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
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Gambrills, Maryland, United States
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Victoria, Australia
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Ixodes ricinus
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Norwood, Massachusetts
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Kærby Mølle
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Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
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Kilde ved Kærby Mølle
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Ixodes ricinus
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Kærby Mølle
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Kærby Mølle
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Midtsjælland
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Midtsjælland, Denmark
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Midtsjælland, Denmark
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Midtsjælland, Denmark
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Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia
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Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia
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Ammelshain, Saxony, Germany
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Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia
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Ixodes ricinus female in dorsal view. Photo credit: Harry Taylor, NHM.
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This photograph depicted a dorsal view of an adult female western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus, which has been shown to transmit Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, and Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA), which was previously known as human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), in the western United States. The small scutum, or tough, chitinous dorsal abdominal plate, does not cover its entire abdomen, thereby allowing the abdomen to expand many times when this tick ingests its blood meal, and which identified this specimen as a female. The four pairs of jointed legs, places these ticks in the Phylum Arthropoda, and the Class Arachnida.Created: 2006
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This photograph depicted a dorsal view of an adult female western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus, which has been shown to transmit Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, and Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA), which was previously known as human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), in the western United States. The small scutum, or tough, chitinous dorsal abdominal plate, does not cover its entire abdomen, thereby allowing the abdomen to expand many times when this tick ingests its blood meal, and which identified this specimen as a female. The four pairs of jointed legs, places these ticks in the Phylum Arthropoda, and the Class Arachnida.Created: 2006