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Ticks

Three Australian Paralysis ticks, Ixodes holocyclus. The brown shape on the left is a small granule of coffee. These ticks if left undected can lead to severe sickness and used to kill before an effective antitoxin. Many pets die every year from this parasites.

 

All of these plus two more, found later, were removed from me after working in the garden.

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Uploaded on August 1, 2009
Taken on August 1, 2009