Tick, deer engorged on the skin

This is an engorged deer tick () embedded in the skin of a human host. In the United States, these ticks are the primary source of Lyme disease. (Image courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and M. Fergione.)

Ixodes dammini

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