#4216 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Castor Bean Tick
🇳🇱 Schapenteek ·Ixodes ricinus
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what is it?
Ixodes ricinus , the castor bean tick , is a chiefly European species of hard-bodied tick. 43 in) when engorged with a blood meal, and can transmit both bacterial and viral pathogens such as the causative agents of Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 107 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #31 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 12,735 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Castor Bean Tick
- Nederlands
- Schapenteek
- scientific name
- Ixodes ricinus
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Ixodida
- family
- Ixodidae
- sightings in NL
- 107
- sightings in Europe
- 5,237
- sightings worldwide
- 12,735
- GBIF records in NL
- 642
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Ixodidae
#4338 📷 10Ornate Cow Tick
🇳🇱 Vlekkenteek
Dermacentor reticulatus
👀 6 in NL
#4410 📷 8American Dog Tick
Dermacentor variabilis
🌍 33.6k seen
#4421 📷 10Eastern Black-legged Tick
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse hertenteek
Ixodes scapularis
🌍 18.2k seen
#4433 📷 7Lone Star Tick
Amblyomma americanum
🌍 14k seen
#4388 📷 7Ornate Sheep Tick
Dermacentor marginatus
🌍 2.2k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 51671, Wikidata Q21175, GBIF 2182588, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.