Common Name: Lone Star Tick
Scientific Name: ""Amblyomma americanum""


*Most common tick in Georgia
*Mouthparts are for piercing and sucking.
*Ticks feed by making a small incision in the skin with their barbed, piercing mouthparts (chelicerae).
*After inserting their mouthparts they set the barbed teeth on the anchoring device (hypostomer) and secrete a fluid that cements their mouthparts into the skin.
*Lone star ticks live in wooded areas with underbrush, along creeks and rivers near animal resting places.

	Lone Star Tick
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