Western black-legged tick
Dec 17, 2018 • 6:14 PM UTC
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Lisa Couper
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Tick collected from Sonoma county, California. Seen here is an Ixodes pacificus , the Western black-legged tick, which vectors the agent of Lyme disease. But fear not, we know this tick isn’t infected because it’s a larvae and the pathogen is not passed from adult ticks to their offspring. The larval stage is the first of 3 tick life stages and the only life stage where ticks have 6 legs instead of 8. Fun fact – ticks are technically arachnids, not insects! #Bio60
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