Tick Talk: How To Protect Yourself From Lyme
A male Ixodes ricinus tick (smaller) shown copulating with a female tick (larger). I. ricinus, the "castor bean" tick, is a vector for the B. burgdorferi spirochete, the cause of Lyme disease.
( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL) #3809 / Wikimedia Commons )
( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL) #3809 / Wikimedia Commons )
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