This was clinging to a grass blade along my walking path. - Dermacentor

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This was clinging to a grass blade along my walking path. - Dermacentor -

Brazelier Island, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
August 18, 2008

This is most likely D. variabilis, but I looked in my tick book (Dermacentor and Otocentor, R.A. Cooley 1938), and there is another species (D. albipictus) that may occur in my area that I couldn't eliminate from these photos.

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This was clinging to a grass blade along my walking path. - Dermacentor - female

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Contributed by Mark Fox on 20 August, 2008 - 9:44am

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