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current | 14:19, 30 November 2008 | 625 × 599 (61 KB) | Nabrown (talk | contribs) | This is a male Ixodes ricinus tick (smaller) shown copulating with a female tick (larger). I. ricinus, the "castor bean" tick, so called because of its resemblance to the castor bean, is a vector for the B. burgdorferi spirochete, the cause of Lyme diseas |
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