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Ticks

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Parasitiformes

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Tickmania

tick
Tasmania
September 10, 2015
Canon 5Dmark2
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Tick on a Q-tip

tick
Tasmania
September 10, 2015
Canon 5Dmark2

One of the students contacted me with an embedded tick.
I tried a tick removal technique that I recently saw on the internet.
Using a moistened Q-tip, I pushed the tick around in a circle 3 times and it released - leaving host and pest unharmed.

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Tick on a Q-tip

tick
Tasmania
September 10, 2015
Olympus Tough
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In search of Tock

tick
Tick
Mamancana, Colombia
Andres was attacked (or maybe atticked) along the trail.
May 4, 2014

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Souvenir from Taktsang (or perhaps Tiksang)

bhutan

Bhutan
2008
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Pacific Coast tick ( Dermacentor occidentalis)

edgewood

Pacific Coast tick ( Dermacentor occidentalis)
Family: Ixodidae (hard-backed ticks)
Edgewood Park
With Atul Chaudhari
May 26, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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Tick on thumb

stanford dish

Tick
Stanford Dish
June 19, 2018
Olympus Tough TG-5
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Tick

stanford dish 2017

Tick ()
Stanford Dish
June, 2017
Olympus Tough TG4
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Tick

stanford dish 2017

Tick ()
Stanford Dish
June, 2017
Olympus Tough TG4
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Tick nymphs on western fence lizard

stanford dish 2017

Tick ()
Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)
Scott and Phyllis
July 17, 2018
Olympus Tough TG5
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Tick bite

tick bite

Tick ()
Thanksgiving 2017
November 23, 2017
Arcadia Place, Palo Alto
Olympus Tough TG-5

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Engorged

tilden

Tick ()
Tilden with Alan
April 21, 2019
Canon 7DmarkII

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tilden

Tick ()
Tilden with Alan
April 21, 2019
Canon 7DmarkII

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Last modified: May 26, 2020
Renamed: June 15, 2017 (from ticks.html)
Created: October 3, 2015 (from magpielark.html)
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