Posts Tagged: ticks

Those Amazing Ticks: And How Hungry Ticks Work Harder to Find You

They ticked me off. Ticks can do that to you. I never think about ticks during the holiday...

Two Dermacentor occidentalis (Pacific Coast ticks) "collected" during a Sonoma outing: male on the left and female on right, as identified by Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. They are about the size of a sesame seed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 5:00 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (422), Dermacentor occidentalis (1), hungry ticks (1), Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District (2), ticks (3), University of Cincinnati (1)

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It Will Be a Parasite Palooza at the Bohart Museum Open House

How much do you know about ticks? How much do you know about nematodes? What would you like to...

Nematologists Corwin Parker (at microscope) and Lauren Camp (back of him) participated in the 2016 UC Davis Museum Diversity Day. Camp, who received her doctorate in entomology in December from UC Davis, is organizing a display for the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Jan. 22. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 5:09 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bed bugs (8), Bohart Museum of Entomology (422), Corwin Parker (6), fleas (2), Lauren Camp (4), Lynn Kimsey (316), nematology (6), ticks (3)

Ticked Off

Now here's something that will tick you off. You're taking photos of bumble bees and honey...

Dog tick

THIS DOG TICK, from the genus Dermacentor, is an adult female. When she's embedded and gorged with blood, she will swell to about half-an-inch long. Here she's crawling on a ruler. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, July 6, 2009 at 8:02 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Center for Vectorborne Diseases (1), Dermacentor (1), dog tick (1), parasite (1), ticks (3)