#4421 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Eastern Black-legged Tick

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse hertenteek ·Ixodes scapularis

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Senna Bryce Robeson · CC BY 4.0
3. © Kyle Aldinger · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Erin Talmage · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Belle Park:© fpentney · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 90 Drabbington Way, Weston, MA 02493, USA:© allysonv · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Mercy Farm, Howard Hill Road, Benson, VT, United States:© Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. Goodhue County, MN, USA:© Paul Broenen · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Weston, MA 02493, USA:© allysonv · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Birkdale Rd, Toronto, ON, CA:© athanya · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Ixodes scapularis is commonly known as the deer tick or black-legged tick (although some people reserve the latter term for Ixodes pacificus , which is found on the West Coast of the USA), and in some parts of the USA as the bear tick . It is a hard-bodied tick (family Ixodidae) of the eastern and northern Midwestern United States. It is a vector for several diseases of animals, including humans (Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, Powassan virus disease,...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,189iNaturalist observations

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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
18,189 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1821 (205 years ago).