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Female American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis).
Host: Human
Location: Soldiers Delight Natural Enviromental Area, Baltimore County, Maryland.
tick tack... tick tack... tick tack... tick tack... tick tack... tick tack... tick tack... tick tack...
Can you hear it?
Have a look at the whole set =)
Time flies...
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Hope everybody had a nice Xmas and i wish you some relaxing next days.
This gonna be a serial of five or six shots.. hope you'll like them =)
an engorged connecticut tick i pulled off of leo - took probably less than 2 hrs to get this way - and i had this thing in my hand for a few minutes before i actually knew what it was - still creaps me out :-p
Members of the public are being asked to help document moose winter tick infestations by completing and submitting an online Moose Winter Tick Survey before April 30, 2015
i know my titles are sometimes a bit obscure (there is always some method in my madness) but this chap just reminded me of the robot tick tock from return to oz
i know it’s hard to see with their wings up, but i think yesterday’s shot was a meadow brown male and this is the female
hope everyone had a nice bank holiday, of course it’s lovely and sunny again now it's over!
(PLEASE NO AWARDS OR PICTURES OR FLASHY BADGES)
Destiny dressed you this morning my friends, and now fear is trying to pull off your pants. If you give up, if you give in, then you're gonna end up naked with fear just standin' there laughing at your dangling unmentionables
-The TICK
Souvenir of my weekend in the woods..... We pulled out the tick as soon as we found it, but some of it stuck inside, so I went to the doc, who pulled out more of it and gave me a prescription for super-antibiotics to fend off any risk of Lyme disease
I really hate wood ticks. Absolute hate them. Illustrating this from source files has certainly squicked me out. My unease is your enjoyment.
And I'm going camping this weekend. *sheesh*
I am nolonger a tick virgin - uuugghhhhh! I tried to remove it carefully with forceps but the body exploded. It was really really horrible. I think I got all of the mouth parts out. I'm sure I'll find out soon enough. Cats to be given a dose of bug killer each...
I don't believe that I have ever displayed a photo of my thigh before, certainly not a close-up. I picked this guy up on 28 April while doing some yard work. I should have used deet. I discovered it this morning, 29 April. First, my wife, Leona, photographed it, then I went to the Patient First walk-in clinic where a skilled physician removed it entirely, including mouth parts, and gave me the CDC-recommended dose of 200mg of doxycycline. I brought it home in a specimen jar and it is now in a killing jar.
Update: go to my next photo (left arrow key) to see an extreme close-up of the tick.
Photo by Leona Illig. Lighted by Snap-On workshop LED.
Two views of a tick just extracted from my belly. It probably jumped on yesterday while I was wandering through the wet heathland at Booderee. I appear to be a tick magnet (that's t for tick, unfortunately) since I manage to end up with ticks just about every visit to the coast. NSW south coast ticks are not to be trifled with.
This is as close as I could get, that's a match head on the left.
And the sophisticated background is my dinner plate.
Actually, this is the Rhinoceros beetle made by Aleksej Kolesov but mine looks more like a tick than a beetle!!
ein Bild zur WM ...
Rollei Superpan 200 in cold Rodinal
Foambrom Variant IV 123 in Se2 + bleach/thiourea/iron blue
This Norwegian soft tick is about one millimeter long. It is sitting on the back of the hand of a friend who's not particularly hairy ;-)
Taken with Tamron 90mm 1:1 macro
All hail the deer tick. There is no escaping this disease carrying creature in our neck of the woods. As if one bout of Lyme disease wasn't enough, now it's time to dose on Doxycycline again.
Minolta Maxxum 9 - Minolta Maxxum AF 28-135mm 1:4-4.5 - Kodak Tri-X 400 @ ASA-1000
Acufine (Stock) 5:00 @ 21C
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Embedded ticks should be removed using fine-tipped tweezers. DO NOT use petroleum jelly, a hot match, nail polish, or other products. With a steady motion, pull the tick's body away from the skin. Cleanse the area with an antiseptic. Learn more about tick removal.
Dogs are very susceptible to tick bites and tickborne diseases. Vaccines are not available for all the tickborne diseases that dogs can get, and they don’t keep the dogs from bringing ticks into your home. For these reasons, it’s important to use a tick preventive product on your dog. Learn more.
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Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS.
Brought this vile creature home from abandoned house I explored! Hours later it's crawling on my hand! Even worse it's a female....ugh
Toby was cast as the tick tock croc in PACK's production of Peter Pan and I was asked to make the costume, which was so much fun. The props and costumes were meant to look like they were taken out of the kids' imaginations, so I wanted the croc to look like something they could have made. It also needed to be easy to see and easy to get into/out of. (Toby was also a memeber of the Indian tribe, so he had 2 quick changes. His base costume was brown for that, I wanted it to work for this.)
I made the base out of cardboard boxes, overlapped and stacked to hold their own weight when uptight. I wanted them to read as cardboard, but some of the boxes were printed so I covered everything in brown corrugated paper. I lined the inside of the mouth with black posterboard and added teeth. The eyes are painted styrofoam balls and I attached the tail sections with plastic shower curtain rings so they would move when he walked. I lightly spray painted his belly yellow and his back green for some contrast. I also added foam to the insdie top for Toby's head to sit in so it would be comfortable to wear. He came out to "Crocodile Rock" and was a hit! He could easily be seen and was a very funny moment.
Made for my Mum's Christmas present and inspired by According to Matt's crochet clocks - accordingtomatt.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/crochet-oclock-tut...
it is really hard to take a clear picture of the back of ones arm. There is a faint dot in the middle and a circle around it making it a 'bulls eye" pattern. No itch, and it's not raised up. My mom, stepmom, and dad all pointed this out to me at different times. I didn't even know I had it and no idea what this is from either. Everyone says tick bite or ringworm.
EDIT 7/3/08 : It is definitely a tick bite. I tested positive for lyme disease and went through a 3 week course of Doxycyclin. Supposedly that's all I have to do. If I'd taken a photo sooner, it would have been a clearer bullseye.
We bought a new huge clock which I hung yesterday. Perfect for a day when I feel under the weather and haven't moved much...
iPhone camera app shot post processed in Snapseed
NJ Route 3, Clifton, NJ. Built by Kullman 1994, third Tick Tock Diner on site (original built 1952).
Ixodes holocyclus
Family: Ixodidae
Order: Ixodida
Superorder: Parisitiformes
Class Arachnida
The Australian paralysis tick is one of 75 species of tick in Australia. The Paralysis Tick can be confused with other species such as the Brown Dog Tick.
This photo shows the hypostome, the barbed mouthparts of the tick. At the end of the hypostome are the chelicerae or cutting parts for penetrating the skin of the host. The palps are sensory organs that assist in guiding the hypostome into position. They are shown spayed out in the picture but are normally held close to the hypostome when not feeding.
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 hypostome 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.
The species is known as a vector of several pathogens including Tick Typhus and potentially bacteria which may be responsible for symptoms that resemble Lyme's disease. The Australian government does not support a diagnosis of Lymes disease originating in Australia, as the causing Bacterium species, Borrelia burgdorferi , is not present in Australia. However, it is without doubt that Lymes-like symptoms are known in Australia and it is likely that ticks in Australia are vectors for a bacterial species related to Borrelia burgdorferi .
Tick expert Ken Kwok had this to say in response to a query about the role of 'festoons' in identification:
"See the first couplet in a visual key to the Aussie paralysis ticks I published some years back (Kwak 2017). The festoons are a feature of the non-Ixodes hard ticks (Metastriata). They are a series of grooves along the posterior edge of the idiosoma which can be very obvious in unfed adults but become far more challenging to see in fed adults and in immature stages."
Ken's key will be incorporated in the comment below if he gives permission for me to do so.
DSC08741_DSC08803 tight crop of proboscis