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Egg collecting is permitted from herring gulls, great black-backed gulls, common gulls, and blacklegged kittiwakes early in the laying season.
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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This blacklegged tick, found in a Michigan forest, probably wouldn't mind you having her over for dinner.
News 2012
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The western blacklegged tick Ixodes pacificus can also carry the bacterium that corresponds to Lyme disease.
News 2012
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The blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, transmits the disease through a bite.
News 2012
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Hickling/University of Tennessee This blacklegged tick, found in a Michigan forest, probably wouldn't mind you having her over for dinner.
News 2012
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Hope it might have disclose out of the unconventional positives or it came into Amazon Top Cinco Libros Mas Leidos when they reprimand that the squirrel name that they were zone for is nonetheless blacklegged by.
Wii-volution 2010
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Students used the satellite imagery to analyze soil moisture and vegetation at 12 locations in the Talladega National Forest in north-central Alabama, creating detailed digital maps and images showing conditions on the ground that could support habitats for carriers of Lyme disease: blacklegged ticks (deer ticks).
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Health officials said blacklegged ticks may currently be around the Stanley Trail area in south-central Manitoba.
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Province looks for blacklegged ticks in south-central Manitoba after Lyme disease detected
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The disease, a bacterial infection transmitted to humans by the bite of infected blacklegged or deer ticks, can spread to joints, the heart and the nervous system, the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control says.
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