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An engorged deer tick in a patient’s skin for 6 days, acquired while walking over a grassy shoreline along the St. Lawrence River here in southeastern Ontario. It was not felt but discovered on the back by a family member who properly excised it. Fortunately no symptoms of Lyme disease but it required the prophylactic single dose of antibiotic doxycycline 200mg. Should any symptoms develops including the circular bullseye rash then the antibiotic must be extended to 2 to 3 weeks depending on the severity of Lyme symptoms. Below this engorged tick placed in a plastic container after properly excised from the skin and still alive...
"Shishitshitshitshitshit! What was it the instructor said in our training again... Was it 'red means dead'? Or did he say that the movies mostly got it right? Oh man... If I survive this, I'm NEVER gonna fall asleep in class ever again!"
This picture popped into my mind the very second I first saw that lifter-guy's head up close and in person.
Also, I just found out I've now been exactly 2 years and 5 days on Flickr. Yay me! :)
Well on the way anyhow. Tick removed from our whippet Jess, despite the Frontline treatment. Nothing's ever 100%, but we were a bit shocked at the size of this when Jim spotted it. Removed swiftly, but I hate killing anything, so I threw it onto the other side of a ditch!
(Caption adapted from film/musical Sweeney Todd)
Photograph from a patient’s iPhone who had this tick for 6 days, then perfectly excised alive and fully mobile. It likely would have fallen off as it becomes too full to cling any longer, up to 10 days of skin attachment. What’s amazing is that the tick releases an anesthetic in to the skin so there is no sensation of it being there. That’s why after walking in a forest with tall grass where they are attached to bite people one should examine their entire body so it’s not acquired. Also ticks typically link to places on the body where there are skin folds like armpit, groin, genitalia, under breast. This tick was an adult that survived the winter and attempted to feed in Spring to then release thousands of eggs that generate larvae that feed on mice that transmit the Lyme bacteria, then they become nymph. Nymph ticks are out and about in summer but are much smaller, are about half the size of this adult tick, and can bite people and be very hard to observe as they are so small. What’s amazing, just south of our border, in New York Sate there is the highest number of reported Lyme disease in the USA over 95 thousand cases since 1986. It’s also on the rise in Ontario 1,159 were reported here in 2019.
It's always flea and tick season in South Carolina.
I was disturbed to see what looks like a tick feeding on this bird, but the bird seemed to be acting normal, and I suspect the tick will fall off soon. It's interesting how nature works - if the tick had tried to attach lower on the bird's body, the bird would have fed on the tick!
Nikon D7200, Nikon 200-500mm. 1/800 sec at f/7.1, ISO 400, 500mm.
25 Dec 2017, Lower Richland County, SC, USA.
In Explore 25 Dec 2017, No. 55.
As the Luna-Tick design began to be copied and spread through Ganteche branches, the design began to undergo further mutations. These two Luna-Ticks are unusual because they both primarily use ballistic systems instead of energy-based systems. They both use autocannons for offense and chaff launchers for defense. The green frame has an elongated chassis and a mortar system, while the white frame has one energy weapon: a single-use chemical laser.
Ixodes holocyclus
Family: Ixodidae
Order: Ixodida
Superorder: Parisitiformes
Class Arachnida
The Paralysis Tick can be confused with other species such as the Brown Dog Tick.
In this photo, we can see the front pair of legs and the rear pair are darker than the others. This is a distinguishing feature of Ixodes holocyclus as is the shape of the palps and the lack of festoons (around the rear margin of the back half of the tick’s body). The proboscis is barbed which is also a feature found in I. holocyclus. The anal groove forming a line anterior to the anus is a characteristic of Ixodes spp.
This species is the most medically significant of the Australian Ticks and can inject toxins into its host. According to the NSW Health authority, early symptoms in humans include “rashes, headache, fever, flu like symptoms, tenderness of lymph nodes, unsteady gait, intolerance to bright light, increased weakness of the limbs and partial facial paralysis”. Symptoms can increase as the tick feeds.
There is controversy as to whether or not Australia has ticks that carry the Lyme's disease bacteria. Testing has, so far, failed to prove that Australia has the bacterium Borrelia bergdorferi, which causes the US version of Lymes disease. However, it is beyond question that a lot of people have suffered from similar chronic and debilitating Lymes symptoms. The generally accepted explanation is that we have “Lymes-like” disease or diseases, often with an uncertain cause. The current thinking is that there are over 20 species of bacteria in a Borrelia-species complex. At least 8 of these are also known to cause Lymes symptoms in Europe and Asia. It is possible there are related Australian bacteria with similar disease capabilities. We also have tick-transmitted bacterial typhus that can also be debilitating.
Ixodes holocyclus is one of several ticks that is thought to trigger an unusual immune response that results in an allergy to mammalian meat. The tick injects a protein known as alpha-gal. The immune response to this is, subsequently, also triggered by carbohydrate molecules on the surface of mammalian meat.
The Photo:
13 shots photographed using a mini compound bench and stacked into the one image
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Some species of ticks can be quite deadly. You need to be very careful with this creature. If it bites you, do not take it yourself. Go to the hospital.
Camera: Canon 6D
Lens: Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 5x
Magnification: 3x
Light: 2 x Ikea Jansjö
Focus Stack: 100 Shots (Stack Panorama)
Automated Rail: WeMacro (50 um)
Tabletop Setup: flic.kr/s/aHskRJsutG
givin it the ol blackbook bonanza! while watching transformers 2 on sky!
good times!! (arrow on right-bad times!)
megan fox-- fooookin good times
... that's the time running out of your ....
EXPLORED THANK YOU!
Canon 50D
Sigma 18-50
3 different textures
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At some point during our little Rowena excursion I managed to pick up a new "friend"- it was sometime between me rolling around in the grass taking pictures and leaping through the fields back to the car for the tripod I didn't think I was going to utilize that I acquired the little bugger. What really, really grosses me out is that I did not discover the no-good hitchhiker until AFTER our hour and a half drive home and AFTER our Roy (our dog) tick check and AFTER I had settled onto the couch for a little nourishment and relaxation. No, no! It wasn't until then that I felt a curious tickle on my inner thigh and, to my delight, was formally introduced to the intruder. Still days after the incident and long after his untimely death, I can feel him crawling on me at any given moment. SO GROSS!!!!
I don't have a bucket list but I do keep a mental checklist of all the trips I would like to do and very high on that list for years has been the Razorback in winter. I've done it in summer and I've been up Feathertop in winter via Bungalow spur but never the whole ridge in winter. Just spent the last few days fixing that with a couple of old hiking mates. This is very early on the ridge near Mt Hotham and the first 2 hours were done entirely on GPS and compass .At this point there was practically no wind at all.
ODC=Circles
Some of the clock gears we use in our Steampunk creations. They look quite large here but are actually about 1 to 1 1/2" across