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Tick!!
this is the first year I've really seen ticks… I didn't have to pick any off of my clothing today, but I spied this one clinging to a leaf just waiting for someone to brush past. I'm afraid this perhaps isn't the cleanest photo, but it started to run away and I didn't let it… I dislike critters that have no other purpose in life than to suck my blood and had no intention of encountering it again on the way down. It wasn't in much shape for more photos after that.
''Dermacentor andersoni'', commonly known as the Rocky Mountain wood tick, is a species of tick. It can cause tick paralysis. This tick is well known as a vector of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever rickettsia in the northwestern U.S. and Canada, the Colorado tick fever virus, and the bacteria which causes tularemia .
Diagnostic features:
* The larva only has three pairs of legs.
* The nymph has four pairs.
* A single pair of spiracular openings are seen close to the coxae.. more
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