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Deer Ked (Lipoptena cervi)
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Copyright © 2009
marvin Turner
Very small insect found on my neck -
Lipoptena cervi
Montauk, Suffolk County, New York, USA
October 7, 2009
Size: aprox 3mm
Difficult to dislodge-- hooked feet
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Contributed by
marvin Turner
on 12 October, 2009 - 9:51am
Last updated 17 January, 2018 - 2:16pm
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John F. Carr
, 17 January, 2018 - 2:16pm
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L. cervi
Lipoptena cervi is the only species of the genus known from New York.
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Michael Skvarla
, 15 November, 2017 - 1:32pm
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, 2 October, 2015 - 1:03pm
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Can you contact us by email?
Our address is on our contributor page. You'll have to adjust it to a real email address. Thanks.
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john and jane balaban
, 21 October, 2011 - 1:28pm
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Keith Bayless
, 29 June, 2011 - 10:50am
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You keep pigeons?
If you keep birds, hunt them, or hunt deer, these flies can come off of those animals when the host dies. They are definitely not parasitic on humans, just to clarify:-)
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Eric R. Eaton
, 13 October, 2009 - 12:30pm
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, 12 October, 2009 - 10:44am
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Look in
Hippoboscidae (Louse Flies)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/13382/bgimage
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John R. Maxwell
, 12 October, 2009 - 10:12am
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