Image: Tick before and after feeding
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Description: Two ticks of the species ixodes holocyclus, picked off koalas in the Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. The small tick had not yet started feeding, while the other had probably been at work for a couple of days. The amount of blood inside the larger tick is probably around 5 millilitres.
Title: Tick before and after feeding
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Author: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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