Please tell me this is not the same ricinus but only a harmless cousin.

Larvae have been reared from leaves of Ricinus species.

If you want to see Ricinus in its glory, there are some wonderful specimens in public gardens.

One of the foodplants of the larvae is Ricinus communis.

The main tick vector is the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus.

I. ricinus is most frequent in habitats where its hosts are plentiful, including woodlands, heaths and forests.

A number of tick-borne diseases can be transmitted by I. ricinus to a variety of mammal hosts.

It is also a favoured haunt of the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus which can carry lyme disease.

Known hostplants of the larvae are Euphorbiaceae (Ricinus sp.

A few cypress trees, castor oil (ricinus) plants, and cactuses grow on the site, and Israeli buildings have been constructed nearby.

The larvae feed on Quercus, Ricinus, Rosa and Salix species.

Ricinus communis (I)

Herbs like vernonia, a medicinal herb, and ricinus, used in paints and varnish, grow alongside an essential oil source, basil.

But it is not passed from person to person; rather, its carrier is a tiny arachnid, the so-called deer tick (in the Ixodes ricinus group).

In Europe, the vector is Ixodes ricinus, which is also called the sheep tick or castor bean tick.

Louping-ill is a tick-transmitted disease whose occurrence is closely related to the distribution of the primary vector, the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus.

The larvae of the recently described Olepa schleini are the only insects which regularly infest Ricinus communis in Israel and adjacent countries.

But I've been told they are ricinus, the plant that was used to assassinate the Bulgarian dissident Georgi I. Markov, back in 1978.

In common with other species of Ixodes, I. ricinus has no eyes and is not ornate; it has no festoons (wrinkles along the posterior margin).

The castor bean variety at Wave Hill, Ricinus communis Carmencita, has reddish-brown leaves and bright red seed pods.

Confusion with Vitex on the part of early settlers in the West Indies may have given to Ricinus communis the name "Castor-oil plant".

Adults often have parasitic ticks, Ixodes ricinus, which can harbour Borrelia and thus can potentially disperse Lyme disease over a wide region.

The name Ricinus is a Latin word for tick; the seed is so named because it has markings and a bump at the end that resemble certain ticks.

Ariadne merione, also known as the Common Castor, is an orange butterfly with brown lines whose larvae feed almost exclusively on Castor Ricinus communis.

Lice include Dermacentor pictus, Ixodes ricinus, I. persulcatus, I. crenulatus and Acarus siro.