engorged tick (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

engorged tick

Caption

This engorged tick, collected in Annapolis, Maryland is likely a female adult deer tick, or Ixodes scapularis. Deer ticks are also called blacklegged ticks and can transmit the pathogens that cause tickborne diseases such babesiosis and Lyme disease.

Credit

NIAID

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