In early July, 1863, troops from General Robert E. Leeâs Army of Northern Virginia (the Confederates) met up with a patrol of Union cavalry on the outskirts of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Over the next three days, this encounter grew into a turning point of the Civil War.
In the South, lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) can also transmit Lyme disease or a closely related illness. Ticks have four life stages: egg, larva, nymph and adult. In each stage after hatching, they suck blood from animals like mice, squirrels, birds and deer.
Ixodes pacificus; western black-legged tick (feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California).xodes persulcatus (bites humans; a vector for Lyme disease spirochete). Ixodes dentatus; Ixodes spinipalpis (usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats).