Tags: Arachnid.

Ixodes cookei is a species of tick in the genus Ixodes. It is normally a parasite of carnivorans such as raccoons foxes and weasels but has also been recorded on the groundhog (Marmota monax) and the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris). In the northeastern United States it is a vector of Powassan virus.

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