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  2. Woodtick - Wikipedia

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    Woodtick or wood tick is the common name for several ticks, including: Dermacentor variabilis, also known as the American dog tick; Dermacentor andersoni, ...

  3. A guide to the tick species every American should know - AOL

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    Long Star ticks are generally found in the West, but they've recently made the jump to the East Coast, too. Ticks have been documented transmitting a wide range of protozoan, bacterial, viral, and ...

  4. Dermacentor variabilis - Wikipedia

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    Dermacentor variabilis, also known as the American dog tick or wood tick, is a species of tick that is known to carry bacteria responsible for several diseases in humans, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia (Francisella tularensis). It is one of the best-known hard ticks. Diseases are spread when it sucks blood from the host.

  5. Dermacentor andersoni - Wikipedia

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    Dermacentor andersoni, commonly known as the Rocky Mountain wood tick, is a hard tick, or member of the Ixodidae family, with three life stages including larvae, nymph, and finally adult, or, more entomologically, imago. This tick is generally located in the northwest United States and southwest Canada along the Rocky Mountains.

  6. Tick season is here, so here are common Maryland varieties ...

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    Fortunately for nature enthusiasts, the Mid-Atlantic has only the deer tick that can infect a host with Lyme Disease, a disease caused by bacteria Borrelia burgdoferi. This results in rashes ...

  7. Are ticks a threat to people in Texas? Here’s what experts ...

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  8. Dermacentor - Wikipedia

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    Hosts of Dermacentor ticks include many large and small mammals, including horses, deer, cattle, lagomorphs, peccaries, porcupines, tapirs, desert bighorn sheep, and humans. [2] The American dog tick (D. variabilis) is a member of the genus. [3]

  9. Ticks of domestic animals - Wikipedia

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    These ticks, commonly known as cattle ticks or blue ticks, have a highly characteristic morphology and one-host lifecycle. They have high specificity for cattle as hosts and their morphological characteristics used for identification are less distinct than those of three-host rhipicephalids such as R. appendiculatus .