Stock photography picture of SEM of a lone star tick Amblyomma americanum a common wood tick mag 4x This tick feeds by making a...

ACK2JC - Licenced Description SEM of a lone star tick Amblyomma americanum a common wood tick mag 4x This tick feeds by making a small incision on the skin with its barbed piercing mouthparts Tick bites can be painful and cause localized inflammation They are vectors for diseases such as ehrlichiosis Rocky Mountain spotted fever Lyme disease and tularemia Acarina Acari Ailment Alone Alpha Subdivision Alphaproteobacteria Amblyomma Amblyomma Americanum America American Americanum Anatomical Anatomy Animal Anatomy Animal Arachnid Arachnida Arthropod Arthropoda Bacteria Bacterial Bacterial Disease Bacterial Infection Bacteriology Bacterium Biological Biology Blood Sucker Bloodsucker Blood Sucker Concept Continent Connecticut Disease Disorder Ehrlichia Ehrlichiosis Eubacteria Eukaryotae Eukaryote Febrile Feeling Fever Geographic Geography Geological Geologic Geology Gram Negative Gram Negative Gram Negative Bacteria Illness Infection Infectious Infectious Disease Inflammation Inflammatory Invertebrate Ixodida Ixodidae Land Life Science Lone Lone Star Tick Lyme Lyme Disease Medical Medicine Microbiology Micrograph Micrography Microscopy Mite Monera Mouthpart Nature North America Organism Pain Painful Pathogen Pathogenesis Pathogenic Pathogen Transmission Pathological Disease Pathological Condition Parasite Parasitic Parasitology Parasitiformes Pierce Piercing Prokaryote Proteobacteria Proteobacterium Prokaryotes Prokaryotae Purple Bacteria Purple Non Sulfur Bacteria Pyretic Rickettsia Rickettsiae Rickettsial Rickettsieae Rock Rocky Scanning Electron Micrograph Science SEM Sensation Stone Stony Symptom Taxonomic Adjective Tick Tularemia U S U S U S A United States Vector