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Ixodes scapularis is commonly known as the deer tick or black-legged tick (although some people reserve the latter term for Ixodes pacificus, which is found on the west coast of the US), and in some parts of the US as the bear tick. [2] It was also named Ixodes dammini until it was shown to be the same species in 1993. [3]
Summer 2017 has already been declared an especially bad season for ticks due to the mild winter and growing deer and mice populations.. Amid mounting fears over the potentially deadly diseases the ...
Tick populations cycle through the year and their numbers depend on a few factors. They like warm, humid weather, and more can be seen after a mild winter. The more deer and mice available to feed ...
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes. [4] [9] [10] The most common sign of infection is an expanding red rash, known as erythema migrans (EM), which appears at the site of the tick bite about a week afterwards. [1]
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 ...
Deer tick may refer to a few different Ixodes spp.: Ixodes scapularis, the eastern North America black-legged tick; Ixodes pacificus, the western North America black-legged tick; Ixodes ricinus, the European tick sometimes called a "deer tick" or "sheep tick"
Loafman notes that deer ticks are tiny, “so the skin inspection must be thorough and close,” he says. The insects like to burrow snugly against the skin, he adds, which makes the groin ...
The adult deer tick attaches to its namesake, but the deer does not carry the bacterium. Humans are not the preferred natural host, but the adult ticks, containing the bacterium known to cause Lyme disease, can attach to humans and allow for transmission of the bacterium. [5]