#tick

[persuadedasians]

Tick does have a great pair

#tick

[arvalis]

I accidentally spent 80 hours painting my own take on a Mimic. Please take a look.

Can see higher res here

#mimic #treasure chest #tick #monster #art #creature #design #painting

[bluedotjpeg]

Online misinformation campaign

#illustration #animal art #animal comic #tick #bug art #art by bluej #art by blue j

[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

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON MY BUG POSTS ARE NOT ALLOWED. That includes posts about potentially harmful species. Negative commenters will be blocked.

#animals #bugs #arachnids #tick #black legged tick #eastern black legged tick #deer tick #Ixodes #Ixodidae #parasite #one nice bug #lyme disease

[typhlonectes]

Lizards may be protecting people from Lyme disease in the southeastern U.S.

The reptiles make poor hosts for transmitting the infection.

Lyme disease is one of the most devastating tick-borne infections in the United States, affecting more than 300,000 people each year. It's also one of the most mysterious: The creature that spreads it—the black-legged tick—lives throughout the country. Yet the northeastern United States is home to far more cases than anywhere else. Now, researchers have identified an unexpected reason: lizards. Black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis), also known as deer ticks, carry corkscrew-shaped bacteria that cause Lyme disease. The ticks pick up the pathogens—spirochetes that belong to the genus Borrelia—when they suck the blood of animals like mice, deer, and lizards. In the next stage of their life cycle, the ticks may latch onto an unlucky human. But every host transmits the microbes differently. Reptiles are worse transmitters than mammals, so ticks that have lived on reptiles are less likely to make people sick. The north-south divide in Lyme cases is a fairly sharp line right along the border of Virginia and North Carolina. Researchers have hypothesized that disparity in cases stems from ticks feeding on different hosts in the two regions...

Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/lizards-may-be-protecting-people-lyme-disease-southeastern-united-states

#lyme disease #tick #arachnid #public health #health #medicine #animals #nature #outdoors #lizard #reptile #herpetology #north america #USA #science

[textless]

Tick-o-rama!

When I first spotted these clumps on tall grasses in Olare Motorogi Conservancy, in Kenya, I thought they were some kind of insect eggs. (My vision isn't as sharp as it once was.) But when I touched a piece of grass, the tiny specks started moving... because they were thousands of baby ticks!

There is no Lyme disease in Kenya, but there is an illness called African tick bite fever that is no joke. I didn't see a single mosquito during my trip - it wasn't their season - but these little guys made me glad to have hardcore insect repellent on hand.

So. Many. Ticks.

#tick #kenya #macro #grass #photographers on tumblr #textless #amadee ricketts #finger #not sure what was going on with the one adult tick #but i didn't stick around for a closer look #creepiest and crawliest

[justinmadson]

The Tick, Arthur and American Maid

#the tick #tick #illustration #drawing #fanart #art #comics #cartoon

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I had a tick sucked onto my throat and the doctor I went to plucked it off with her fingers pinched in a quick manner while saying, “Yoink”.

#dream #tick #body horror #disgusting #doctor #nightmare #horror

[jaegerpilotmax]

Inktober 2021 day 14, tick

a tick if it was a soulsborne boss

#tick #monster #horror art #fantasy art #bloodborne #dark souls #elden ring #dungeons and dragons #creature design #dnd #sketchbook #inktober #ink #ink drawing #artists on tumblr #illustration #meart #traditional art

[solemarc2]

One finger is all it takes and you're a mess, I wonder if your heel is ticklish... Let's see 😎😈😈

#female soles #tickle #tickle community #feet tickling #ticklish #tickling #tickling community #tickling feet #tickle tickle #meaty soles #foot tickling #tickleme #tickle content #tick

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Tick Season by TheHollyLord This artist on Instagram

#art #illustration #digital art #dark art #horror #fantasy #macabre #surreal #creature design #bugs #tick #spider #for blacklisting purposes

[vintagewildlife]

Mouthparts of a deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) By: A. Spielman From: Natural History Magazine 1977

#tick #arachnid #arthropod #invertebrate #1977 #1970s #A. Spielman #Natural History Magazine

[gottdeswill]

“[…] lately I’ve been hearing this sound. Everywhere I go, like a tick, tick, tick… Like a time bomb in some cheesy B-movie or a saturday morning cartoon. The fuse has been lit. The clock counts down the seconds, as the flame gets closer, and closer, and closer, until… all at once [boom]”

#time running out #pressure #Jonathan Larson #Tick #Tick... Boom! #Lin-Manuel Miranda #Steven Levenson #Andrew Garfield

[persuadedasians]

Those melons on Tick

#tick

[onenicebugperday]

do ticks have eyes?? or, at least, visible eyes?

Not all ticks have eyes, but some do! And you can often see them. Here's a lone star tick's eyes:

Photo by Thomas Shahan

And an American dog tick:

Photo by robberfly

#critterchitters-closedcaptions #the more you know #bugs #arachnids #tick #parasite #lone star tick #american dog tick

[driveintheaterofthemind]

The Tick

Art by Jeremy Brooks

#Comics #Tick #The Tick #Jeremy Brooks #Animation #Cartoons #Film #Television #TV #Art