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American Dog Tick - Dermacentor variabilis - female
Copyright © 2006 Joyce Gross

American Dog Tick - Dermacentor variabilis - Female
San Leandro, Alameda County, California, USA
May 15, 2006
Size: 16mm
I was impressed by the size of this thing. Here it's posing on a penny.

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American Dog Tick - Dermacentor variabilis - female American Dog Tick - Dermacentor variabilis - female
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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 22 May, 2006 - 4:11am
Last updated 5 August, 2006 - 3:48am

Fat Tick!
And by the looks of it she had a good lunch!
… Brittanie Christina McCormack, 15 July, 2006 - 11:12am login or register to post comments

Yikes
That is one fat tick!
… Lynette Schimming, 22 May, 2006 - 2:16pm login or register to post comments

 
nasty
ticks can drink up to 600 times their body weight. if humans can drnk like ticks, we would be able to drnk more than 10,000 gallons of blood!
… Omar Fahmy, 23 May, 2006 - 11:46am login or register to post comments

 
I know!
I know! And that's not funny!
… Brittanie Christina McCormack, 15 July, 2006 - 11:10am login or register to post comments

 
it's just amazing how big the
it's just amazing how big they can get!
… Rachel Johnson, 8 July, 2007 - 8:57pm login or register to post comments

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