TICK INFORMATION
The most common tick in the world is the species called the Brown Dog Tick. Brown Dog Ticks can deposit from 1,000 to 3,000 and can live up to 200 days without a blood meal. The Brown Dog Tick is the most common tick found here in Southwest Florida. This tick does not vector any diseases.
The most common tick found in the United States is called the American Dog Tick. It feeds exclusively upon wild small rodents. The American Dog Tick is a vector of the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. This tick is more likely to infest houses and feed off of humans.
Ticks have a modified gradual metamorphosis in their development. Instead of 3 stages in a gradual metamorphosis, there are 4 stages in the development of ticks which are the egg, larva, nymph, and adult.
Young ticks hatch out their eggs into small white worm looking larvae. They quickly develop into the nymph stage that looks similar to a small adult with only 6 legs, called a seed tick. These nymph stage ticks jump on any host animal and feed upon the blood of that host. They then fall off the host animal and molt their exoskeleton several times before becoming an adult tick. The newly formed adult tick then jumps on another host animal for several blood meals before being able to reproduce eggs. The adults mate while on the host animal. The female having fed upon the blood of the host animal then drops to the ground to deposit her eggs at the base of foliage or a structure or crawls up off the ground on foliage or a structure such as a tree or the side of your home. Soon after the female tick lays her eggs she dies. The life of a tick.
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