The proportion of immature stages of the Rocky Mountain wood tick (<i>Dermacentor andersoni</i>) feeding on artificially infested cattle
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<i>Dermacentor andersoni</i>, Rocky Mountain wood tickAbstract
Only 2% of <i>D. andersoni</i> larvae engorged when confined in sleeves over clipped areas on or near the tails of two heifers, but percentages were higher in some sleeves. About 13% of nymphs fed when placed in sleeves near the withers of two other heifers. These yields are within 10 percentage points of t hose from two usual laboratory hosts (rabbits and white mice), which suggests that cattle should be examined for larvae and nymphs in the field, since the numbers feeding on them may not always be negligible in relation to disease transmission and maintenance of tick populations.References
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