SPIDERS AND THEIR RELATIVES 



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The red bugs and the ticks are real nuisances. 

 If one were out in the jungle for a long time with 

 no good way of getting rid of them at least once 



Photograph by Field Museum 



Fig. 43. Ticks feeding through turtle shell 



a day, he might be driven nearly distracted. Both 

 trouble other animals beside man. The large 

 tapirs are said to be covered with them. One of 

 the turtles I found had not only ticks attached 

 to its leathery legs, but others as well fed that 

 had gone to the work of boring through its hard 



