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American Dog Tick

American Dog Tick

Two of the three families of ticks are capable of transmitting diseases to humans: Ixodidae, or hard ticks, and Argasidae, or soft ticks. The photomicrograph presented here is a close-up view of the piercing mouthparts from Dermacentor variabilis, commonly known as the American dog tick.

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