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Electron microscope images

Mating sheep ticks - Ixodes ricinus

MALE & FEMALE
 

Click here for: larva, nymph, male, female, mating ticks and comparing mouthparts photographs

These photos were taken on the JEOL 5600LVSEM scanning electron microscope at the University of Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre on 10th August 2009.
 

Male tick (on top) mating with engorged female
Normal secondary electron image

 

Male tick (on top) mating with engorged female
Back-scattered electron image

 

Another view .....

 

..... and in more detail

 

Male hypostome embedded in female aperture

 

Acknowledgement: My thanks to the staff of the University of Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre, Dr Roy Moate, Peter Bond and Glenn Harper, for enabling me to take these photographs.

 


 

 

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