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canada. it is a vector for several diseases of animals, including humans ( lyme disease , babesiosis , anaplasmosis , powassan virus disease , etc.) and is known as the deer tick owing to its habit of parasitizing the white-tailed deer . it is also known to parasitize mice, [ ] lizards, [ ] migratory birds
and drink its blood for - days. deer are the preferred host of the deer tick, but it is also known to feed on small rodents. [ ] after she is engorged, the tick drops off and overwinters in the leaf litter of the forest floor. the following spring, the female lays several hundred to a few thousand eggs...
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