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American Dog Tick

Dermacentor variabilis

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 185, February 190, March 300, April 587, May 1,128, June 646, July 398, August 360, September 379, October 310, November 194, December 173.
United States26,245
Canada5,303
Ontario3,395
Ohio1,832
Massachusetts1,648
Michigan1,462
Illinois1,436
Pennsylvania1,295
Virginia1,161
New York1,161

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderTicks · Ixodida
FamilyHardbacked Ticks · Ixodidae
GenusDog Ticks · Dermacentor

Sources

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Practise American Dog Tick with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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