#deer tick

[onenicebugperday]

Eastern black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis, Ixodidae

Commonly known as the deer tick, this species is a vector for several diseases, most notably Lyme disease. In most cases, the tick must be attached for at least 36 hours to transmit the disease.

Photos 1-3 by allysonv, 4 (for scale) by adeans, 5 (engorged) by duncan10, and 6 (male - all others are female) by sambiology

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Deer tick! :D

[aquaspiderart]

a few playful arachnids

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[spider-farmer]

A bag of mine - based on Ixodes scapularis, the black-legged tick! Made of two pairs of pants and some spare red I had lying around

[rastronomicals]

Deer Tick

[krispyweiss]

Los Lobos Surprise - Really - with “La Bamba” at Newport

- Nels Cline and John McCauley Give Band a Five-guitar Front Line on Bluesy Rendition

That Los Lobos concluded their Newport Folk Festival set with “La Bamba” is no surprise.

But the howling version the Wolves played was a shocker.

Augmented by Wilco’s Nels Cline and Deer Tick’s John McCauley, Lobos sported a five-guitar front line and put it to good use with a half-speed, blues-infused rendition of their famous Ritchie Valens cover.

The audience-shot video sounds pretty crummy. But it nevertheless crackles with electricity as Cline strangles his axe, coaxing otherworldly colors over David Hidalgo’s drawn-out vocal delivery.

Lobos have played “La Bamba” at most of the 24 gigs Sound Bites has attended. But none of them sounded like this one, which jettisoned the oft-inserted “Good Lovin’” interlude but retained the grimy outro that was recently appended to the track.

Muy bueno.

8/2/23

[blu-cosmo]

my bb boi singing my sorrows away when i can’t do it myself or join him 3: 🌹

not me fully jus mesmerized by him hahahahhaha i was also sleepy okie

[shelleysackier]

My Garden's Grassroots Plan to Poison Me

I grew up in Wisconsin in a family that gardened. Correction—I grew up in Wisconsin, birthed by a woman who is a gardener but who did not have as many hours in the day to tend to the gardens she created and, therefore, I was compelled to garden like the rest of my siblings. It’s not that we were gardeners; we were the labor force of the head gardener. Her gardens were beautiful. Flowers with…

[upperswampmonkey]

Deer Tick- The Great Smoke Off

[bellnallart]

deer ticks, tick deer

babies stand atop stumps or branches and ‘hug’ passing animals to catch a ride

they rub their bodies on trees to remove seasonal velvet

their proboscis is used to suck sap from trees

[flockofteeth]

Holy shit, how did that happen?

Ahhhh. Of course.

Wow, how did that happen?

By spending 254 minutes listening to Twenty Miles lmfao. I'm sensing a pattern

[flock-of-cassowaries]

This post was made by a deer tick.

[3garcons]

Deer Tick

Nicolette and the nobodies

9-15-24