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Tick on the cap of a shaggy mane mushroom. Western black-legged ticks, like eastern deer ticks, can transmit Lyme disease. Here, however, the disease persists in only a small fraction of the tick population, thanks to western fence lizards, whose blood kills the disease.
Photo by John W. Wall, jwallphoto.blogspot.com.
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