A deer tick is a parasitic arthropod that is normally found on deer in the adult stage. However, the same tick may be found on small mammals like mice and foxes when the ticks are younger. The deer tick is mostly known for carrying Lyme disease.
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The deer tick's genus is Ixodes; its species is I. scapularis.
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deer tick
deer tick is the type of tick that buries in the skin.
Lyme Disease is transmitted to a human through a tick bite if the tick is carrying the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. The tick transmits the spirochete which causes the disease. It is most commonly found in the brown deer tick.
The symbiosis relationship of a deer and a tick is parasitism. The deer is the harmed host and the tick is harming the host.
There's three reasons a deer ticks mostly get on deers and a tick mostly get on humans head or body. A deer tick gets on ticks and a tick just sucks blood from a human. A deer tick is much harder to get off then a tick.
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parasitism
The Tick feeds off of the deers blood. The deer is not killed so the relationship is parasitism.