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Letter: Ticked off

Published 15 October 2014

From Gerald Legg

As a keen microscopist I was delighted to see Arthur E. Smith’s micrographs featured in your magazine (4 October, p 24).

However, I have to point out that the “sheep tick” is in fact a type of louse-fly, the sheep ked Melophagus ovinus.

Having curated old microscope slides I quite often found slides incorrectly labelled, the slides often being created by a microscope-slide preparator rather than an entomologist or arachnologist.
Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, UK

Issue no. 2991 published 18 October 2014

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