Look for: The brown dog tick is a reddish brown and more narrow in shape compared to other ticks. The Gulf Coast tick can transmit Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis , a less severe form of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Look for: To spot this tick, look for a slightly lighter coloring in its legs, a brown body, and silvery white connected lines on its shield. A female also has a light-colored scutum, though. These guys like it high up: Their habitats are in wooded areas of the Rocky Mountains in an elevation of at least 4, feet.
Like many ticks, this brown-hued species transmits Rocky Mountain spotted fever, as well as Colorado tick fever a rare viral disease , says the CDC.
Look for: While they look similar to dog ticks, adult males have a cream-colored portion on their backs. Be cautious of them in forests and grassy areas year-round. Location: You can find them from the northern coast of Washington down to the Mexico border in California plus most of Utah.
Soft ticks are in a league of their own. They latch on and painlessly feed for less than 30 minutes. Instead of typical grassy areas, they are found in rodent burrows, and humans can suffer a bite while sleeping in rustic cabins, the CDC says. Look for: Expect a soft, oval body shape with the head tucked underneath compared to the hard ticks listed above. After feeding, they take on a swollen, flesh-like appearance.
Location: Soft ticks are primarily found throughout the western half of the U. If you are going into a known tick habitat, make sure you wear protective clothing, like a long-sleeved shirt and pants, hat, and long socks preferably tucked into your pants.
Adult females are most likely to bite humans. Primary vector for R. All life stages feed on a variety of warm-blooded animals, including groundhogs, skunks, squirrels, raccoons, foxes, weasels, and occasionally people and domestic animals.
Adult ticks have been associated with transmission of R. Larvae and nymphs feed on small rodents. Adult ticks are primarily associated with pathogen transmission to humans. After several days of feeding, the larvae develop into nymphs, which can then attach to larger hosts and then ultimately turn into adult ticks. Ticks advance through each of these stages by molting, a process during which they shed their outer skin. Of the nearly species of ticks that exist in the world, only a select number bite and transmit disease to humans within the United States.
Distinguishing Characteristics of the Eastern Blacklegged Tick: Unfed female Eastern blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ticks, are easily distinguished from other ticks by the orange-red body surrounding the black scutum. Males do not feed. A type of hard tick, deer tick populations tend to be higher in elevation, in wooded and grassy areas where the animals they feed on live and roam, particularly their reproductive host, the white-tailed deer. Distinguishing Characteristics of the Brown Dog Tick: The brown dog tick is a type of hard tick that is most often found around human dwellings, particularly where dogs reside.
Brown dog ticks can cause high levels of infestation both on dogs and in homes, and can spend their entire life cycle indoors. Diseases Transmitted by the Brown Dog Tick: At multiple stages of its lifecycle, the brown dog tick can transmit Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Rickettsia rickettsii to both humans and dogs. At both nymphal and adult stages, brown dog ticks can transmit canine Ehrlichiosis Ehrlichia canis and canine Babesiosis Babesia canis vogeli and Babesia gibsoni-like parasites to dogs.
A type of hard tick, it is typically found in grass prairies and coastal uplands. Diseases Transmitted by the Gulf Coast Tick: Adult ticks can transmit Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosi , a form of spotted fever caused by R.
Distinguishing Characteristics of the Lone Star Tick: One of the most recognizable ticks, the adult female lone star tick has a very visible white dot or lone star in the center of her back. A type of hard tick, the lone star tick is very aggressive and known to pursue a host over long distances.
Lone star ticks are rarely found in Minnesota, but can spread diseases such as ehrlichiosis and tularemia. The blacklegged tick, shown in the lower right, is much smaller than the American dog tick, shown in the upper right. The lone star tick is shown in the upper left of this photo and is a little smaller than the American dog tick but larger than the blacklegged tick. Blacklegged ticks live for about two to three years. During their entire lifetime, they will only have up to three blood meals.
The picture below shows that the life cycle begins when the female lays eggs. As the egg matures, it develops into a larva right-middle , then a nymph top-middle and finally, an adult male or female bottom-right.
In the spring of their first year, eggs hatch into larvae. Larvae prefer to feed on blood from small mammals, like mice and birds. Larvae have one feeding then molt into nymphs and rest until the next spring. During this first meal, the larva may pick up a disease agent like the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while feeding on a small mammal, such as a white-footed mouse.
Late in the spring of their second year, nymphs take their second feeding. At this time, if the nymph is infected with a disease agent then it could spread the disease agent to a human or animal that it feeds on.
In the fall of their second year, nymphs that have had a blood meal will molt into an adult male or female tick. Adults prefer to feed on large mammals, such as white-tailed deer or humans. The females find a host to feed, mate with an adult male tick, lay hundreds to thousands of eggs, and then die.
The males attach to a host to find a female mate and then die. If there is little to no snow cover and temperatures rise above freezing, it is possible to find an active adult tick searching for a host on a warm winter day.
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