Asgeir Helgestad / Hazel grouse {Tetrastes bonasia} Norway

Chien Lee / Channel Islands House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus clementis) female with tick on neck, California

Konrad Wothe / Tick (Ixodidae), Panguana Nature Reserve, Peru

Richard Du Toit / Southern Giraffe (Giraffa giraffa) with Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) feeding on tick, Chobe National Park, Botswana

MYN / Andrew Snyder / Amazon Green Anole (Anolis punctatus) with an engorged tick, Berbice River, Guyana, September. Meetyourneighbours.net project.

Adrian Davies / Sheep tick (Ixodes ricinus), Surrey, England, April.

Adrian Davies / Sheep tick (Ixodes ricinus), Surrey, England, April.

Piotr Naskrecki / Tick, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

MYN / Andrew Snyder / Hard tick (Amblyomma sp.) Kanuku Mountains, Guyana. Meetyourneighbours.net project

D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Little Blue Penguin (Eudyptula minor) chick with ticks during molt, Phillip Island, Australia

Juergen Freund / Paralysis tick (Ixodes holocyclus) responsible for paralysing Spectacled flying foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) North Queensland, Australia

MYN / Joao P. Burini / Female tick (Ixodes sp) engorged with blood, urban, Piedade, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May. meetyourneighbours.net project

Rick Tomlinson / "Sinbad" under sail during Round the Island Race, The British Classic Yacht Club Regatta, Cowes Classic Week, July 2008