Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma americanum because of the lone star

Favorite Tick and Why: Rhipicephalus appendiculatus – the first tick I worked with professionally and because of its historical significance in the transmission of pathogens in Africa.

Favorite Tick and Why: This tick is a soft tick that lived approximately 90 to 94 million years ago. It is the oldest known tick fossil record. Since it was around in the 'upper' Cretaceous period, it would have been present during the time of dinosaurs and may have even dined on a 'dino'.

Favorite Tick: Dermacentor variabilis because this is the tick that we use to study transmission of Francisella.

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma americanum. They are the easiest tick to count because they are fast!

Favorite Tick and Why: Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus because this is the most important cattle tick in tropical and subtropical regions of the world and the first tick species subject of my studies.

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma americanum (L.). More detailed information on lipid metabolism is available for this tick than for any other.

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma americanum because it transmits so many different parasites.

Favorite Tick and Why: I prefer Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick. The reason I like this tick is that we know a lot about its physiology - I consider it the "lab rat" of the tick world. I like that this tick is easy to raise and will feed on almost any host. It has beautiful long mouthparts and like most Amblyomma has some ornamentation on its dorsal cuticle - females have a white/silvery spot on the scutellum and males are decorated around their festoons.

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma maculatum is my favorite tick because it is the definitive host of Hepatozoon americanum

Favorite Tick and Why: The Tropical Bont tick, Amblyomma variegatum, that vectors Ehrlichia ruminantium, the rickettsia that causes heartwater disease. A. variegatum is a beautiful tick and I used a painting of the male on the

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick – beautiful, ecologically successful, aggressive, and extraordinary transmitter of pathogens both known and yet to be discovered

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma splendidum – (should have been named A. spectaculum) because it’s just the coolest looking tick ever!

Favorite Tick and Why: Amblyomma maculatum because it is large and transmits Hepatozoon americanum.

Favorite Tick and Why: I have listed the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum, but I am not really a "tick person". I am, however, interested in pathogens which spend time within ticks and have adapted to survive in that environment, thus my interest in ticks. I’m just glad the real tick researchers let me hang out on the fringes. It is fascinating.