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SHEEP. A wether more than a year old. 4 Car. & Payne, 216; 19 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 331, S. C.

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Closer inspection revealed the lump was in fact an engorged sheep tick which had grown fat on my blood.

TRAVEL Readers tales...: Ewe'll be tick-led by sheep tale

An experimental evaluation of conventional control measures against the sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus, L.

Adaptations of winter ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) to invade moose and moose to evade ticks

He knew that Shelter Island was Lyme disease territory, he knew about the rash, and he knew that decades before in Europe there had been an unsuccessful attempt to show that a spirochete from the sheep tick was responsible for ECM.

Catching the bug

In the UK, Lyme disease is carried by the sheep tick (Ixodes ricinus), the hedgehog tick (I.

Lyme disease--explaining the facts

The owner originally believed the injury was caused by a sheep tick but a vet later removed an airgun pellet from Indy's hind leg.