Ticks and Mites (Order Acarina)
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| Lone Star Tick (Amblyoma americanum), Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC. This is magnified several times. It's a major carrier of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in North Carolina. | Female Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis), Bobbitt's Hole, Eno River SP, Old Cole Mill Road access, 5/29/05. Magnified about 2X. Unlike the lone star tick on the left, this tick made its presence known before I saw it and put it on this rock. | Dog Tick, probably originating at Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC, 7/9/06 |
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| Velvet mite (family Trombidiidae), Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 6/16/07 | Velvet mite, Eno River State Park, Orange County, NC, Pea Creek Trail, 9/12/07. This mite was caught in a web deserted by a spider. I pulled it out of the web but don't know if it survived. |
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| Velvet mite , Eno River State Park, Old Cole Mill Road access, 5/10/07. This mite noticed a black object, probed it and left it behind. The mite was about 3 mm long. | |