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💟Ticks: disease, biology; systematics et al.
An opinion piece on South African tick diversity from #GTTM #Gertrud_#Gertrud_Theiler_Tick_Museum #National_Tick-Collection
30.06.2025 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Ornithodoros_kalahariensis concentrating a blood meal
12.06.2025 19:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Amblyomma_exornatum from monitor lizard
12.06.2025 19:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Molting mode ⏯️ #Amblyomma_hebraeum nymphs in the making.
07.05.2025 10:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This tick youngin has only 2/2ths 😉. Cut the mouthparts off, examined on glass slide in emersion oil, covered with glass cover slip, 100x oil emersion lens.
22.03.2025 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mounted in Entellan #Gertrud_Theiler_Tick_Museum #GTTM #Haemaphysalis_eliptica
07.03.2025 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unilateral rig😉 Ok. Unilateral adanal plate.
27.02.2025 17:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interesting find from our last field trip #Haemaphysalis_aciculifer
27.02.2025 17:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Visitor to the #tick_museum: Ben Mans. #Gertrud_Theiler_Tick_museum #GTTM #National_tick_collection #South_Africa
01.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ornate cow tick / ornate dog tick / meadow tick / marsh tick
#Dermacentor_reticulatus #ornate_ticks
12.01.2025 18:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Amblyomma_sylvaticum the Cape tortoise 🐢 tick.
12.01.2025 18:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Here’s to 2025: May we all find funding, inspiration, and a few moments of peace amidst the deadlines.
01.01.2025 16:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
May 2025 bring new goals, new achievements, fewer comments from Reviewer #2 and more 'accept with minor revisions'.
#Rhipicephalus_pulchellus
25.12.2024 09:40 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Theileria spp. schizonts with pycnotic nuclei seen when sampling post mortem. These were not cause of death.
20.12.2024 18:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cute little bugger.
Natal forest tree frog endemic to the eastern coastal areas of South Africa.
The #Gertrud_Theiler_Tick_Museum #GTTM attended Science Forum South Africa, 3-6 Dec'24 @ CSIR International Convention Centre,Pretoria, South Africa. Representing the #National_tick_collection #National_helminth_collection #National_collection_insects_of_veterinary_importance
17.12.2024 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Glorified cattle. But I am biased. #African_buffalo
14.12.2024 09:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This looks more serious than a flat tire in the middle of nowhere 😳
13.12.2024 18:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tick collections from sheep from 6-9am in 40C heat 🥵🥵
13.12.2024 15:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Field work joys.
12.12.2024 18:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks!
12.12.2024 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crossing the species barrier. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
10.12.2024 08:18 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Third eye aligned.
#Amblyomma-tholloni female ex African elephant, Kruger National Park. ZA.
The female of the species sporting a funky goaty. _Ixodes_ _pilosus_ group
The female of the species sporting a funky goaty. #Ixodes_pilosus-group
06.12.2024 20:16 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
