ixodes+scapularis


 * Ixodes Scapularis**



Kingdom: Animilia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachinda Subclass: Acari Superorder: Parasitiformes Order: Ixodida Family: Ixodidae Geneus: Ixodes Species: Scapularis

It is known as the deer tick and the blacklegged tick. Its species name is ther Ixodes Scapularis. it is found on the west coast of the united states. It cvan give many animals including humans various dediseases. The insect itself gets larger or engorges when it is feeding off of a host. It is also very small, it does increase its size but not by much. While it feeds it turns a light grayish blue color. There are many various types of this insect.

The insect has 2 life cycles, it passes through 3 stages the larva, nymph, and adult. When the deer tick find a host it usually feeds for four to five days. The females lay up to several hundered eggs in clussters at a time.

The insect is a prokaryote cell and it can reproduce asexual and sexual so they are both. This incect is a hetertroph and it gets its food from other animals or humans by sucking their hosat blood. They have various predators such as other animals that live in their habitat. These animals include rodents and various birds. Its symbiotic relationship is, it uses the host to better itself and its host doesnt get anything in return. It causes many different diseases.it is parasitistic. it lives in various forests in the united states.

Three interesting facts are that it causes lyme disease, also it lives in my relitive location, and it also has many different names that it is called by all over the united states of america.