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wood tick
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wood tick
Etymology: AS, wudu + ME, tike
a hardshelled tick of the Ixodidae family and a natural reservoir of Rickettsia rickettsii. One species of wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni, is the principal vector in western North America of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, transmitted by R. rickettsii.

wood tick
see dermacentorandersoni.


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I hate wood ticks, and that was what we found in our clothes and mining into our bodies that day in June.
Other ticks such as Lone Star Ticks, western black legged and wood ticks can spread Lyme Disease as well.
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